Herbert Akins Road Middle

As an expansive 6-8 campus in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, Herbert Akins Road Middle serves 1,253 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by Wake County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 107% bigger than the state mean of about 605.

Within Wake County Schools, which oversees 198 schools and 163,176 students, Herbert Akins Road Middle is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Herbert Akins Road Middle logs that White students make up the majority at 58%; the rest comes out to 22% Hispanic, 11% Black, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Wake County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Herbert Akins Road Middle has 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. The state averages about 15.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 34% of students at Herbert Akins Road Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Herbert Akins Road Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.8%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Wake County indicate median household earnings sit near $105,768, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Herbert Akins Road Middle is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

Nearest neighbor: Herbert Akins Rd Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Herbert Akins Road Middle. On composite proficiency, Herbert Akins Road Middle comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 70.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.