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Enrollment
947
Middle
DISTRICT 887 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAKE COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370472002682
Heritage Middle
3400 Rogers Road, Wake Forest, NC 27587 · (919) 562-6204 · Wake County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL947 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 90% of North Carolina public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
58 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
160 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 283 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 338 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 326 | 34% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Heritage Middle→Heritage High
Feeds from
Based on published attendance-zone data from Wake County Schools. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
75.7%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
80.1%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
78.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.7%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Heritage Middle
Heritage Middle's state test result (78.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage Middle this school | 947 | 16.9% | 78.3% |
| Holly Grove Middle Holly Springs | 979 | 17.7% | 75.5% |
| Northwest Guilford Middle Greensboro | 915 | 21.0% | 79.5% |
| Apex Middle Apex | 867 | 24.8% | 73.0% |
| South Charlotte Middle Charlotte | 770 | 23.1% | 75.2% |
| Holly Ridge Middle Holly Springs | 955 | 26.0% | 71.9% |
Matched among North Carolina middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Heritage Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Wake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.3% | #17 of 463 | #5 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.1% | #19 of 461 | #5 of 37 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.7% | #16 of 463 | #5 of 38 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 947 | #54 of 478 | #18 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #223 of 456 | #22 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.2% | #308 of 456 | #38 of 39 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.9% | #463 of 472 | #35 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.8% | #45 of 300 | #9 of 28 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
947
-259 (-21%) vs 2020
-32% since 2010-11, when it was 1,392
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
was 17.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 947 | 58.4 | 16.2:1 | 17% (160) |
| 2023-24 | 947 | 61 | 15.5:1 | 16% (151) |
| 2022-23 | 997 | 60 | 16.6:1 | 14% (144) |
| 2020-21 | 1,206 | 68 | 17.7:1 | 11% (133) |
| 2017-18 | 1,260 | 73.5 | 17.1:1 | 11% (142) |
| 2015-16 | 1,260 | 69 | 18.3:1 | 16% (197) |
| 2010-11 | 1,392 | 79 | 17.6:1 | 19% (262) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Heritage Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (1,260 to 947); teachers down 21% (73.5 to 58.4).
About Heritage Middle
Heritage Middle is a public middle school run by Wake County Schools in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Grades offered run from 6 through 8, with 947 students enrolled. For comparison, middle schools in North Carolina average about 605 students.
Wake County Schools is the district for Heritage Middle. It has 198 schools and 163,176 students.
Heritage Middle's enrollment is 64% White. The remaining shares are 12% Black, 11% Hispanic, 9% Asian, and 4% multiracial. By the diversity index, Heritage Middle comes in at 55%.
Heritage Middle employs 58.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 16.2:1. Across middle schools in North Carolina, the average ratio is about 15.9:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 17% in 2024-25. Public schools in Wake County average 42%.
Heritage Middle is graded A by allk12, scoring above 90% of North Carolina public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Heritage Middle is 4.6 points above its prediction. Actual: 78.3%. Predicted: 73.7%.
Wake County census figures show that median household income is about $105,768, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. A total of 237 public schools operate in Wake County, serving about 184,790 students.
Nearest public school: Heritage Elementary, about 0.2 miles away. The five-mile area around Heritage Middle holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Heritage Middle ranks 1st of 7 nearby schools, at 78.3% versus a 58.0% average.
In the federal locale system, Heritage Middle is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 947, 21% below the 1,206 of 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 17.7:1 to 16.2:1.
Threads on this page can be about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Wake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,178,653
Census ACS
Median income
$105,768
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
237
184,790 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wake County Schools
- Apex Friendship HighHigh · 2,748 students
- Enloe HighHigh · 2,643 students
- Panther Creek HighHigh · 2,609 students
- Millbrook HighHigh · 2,498 students
- Apex HighHigh · 2,449 students
- Leesville Road HighHigh · 2,411 students
Other schools in Wake Forest
- Wake Preparatory AcademyCombined · 2,617 students
- Wake Forest High SchoolHigh · 2,043 students
- Heritage HighHigh · 1,778 students
- Franklin AcademyCombined · 1,660 students
- Wake Forest Middle SchoolMiddle · 878 students
- Endeavor Charter SchoolElementary · 799 students
Other Heritage Middle schools
19 other US public schools in 13 states are named Heritage Middle. Heritage Middle is the 3rd largest of the 20.
- Heritage MiddleValdese, NC · 475 students
- HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMERIDIAN, ID · 1,003 students
- Heritage Middle SchoolLIVINGSTON, NJ · 994 students
- HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOLDELTONA, FL · 932 students
- Heritage Middle SchoolRinggold, GA · 858 students
Nearby schools
- Heritage Elementary0.2 mi · 634
- Heritage High0.6 mi · 1,778
- Wake Forest Middle School1.0 mi · 878
- Franklin Academy1.4 mi · 1,660
- Wake Forest Charter Academy1.5 mi · 650
- Wake Forest Elementary1.9 mi · 444
Frequently asked questions
About Heritage MiddleHow many students attend Heritage Middle?
Heritage Middle enrolls approximately 947 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Heritage Middle serve?
Heritage Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Heritage Middle?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Heritage Middle is approximately 16.2:1 (58 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Heritage Middle?
At Heritage Middle, the student body is approximately 64% White, 11% Hispanic, 12% Black, 9% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Heritage Middle?
Heritage Middle is overseen by Wake County Schools in Wake County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.