Leesville Road Middle

As a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school in Raleigh, North Carolina, Leesville Road Middle enrolls 795 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by Wake County Schools. That puts it 31% bigger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 605 students.

Wake County Schools runs 198 schools in total, collectively educating 163,176 students. Leesville Road Middle is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Leesville Road Middle logs that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 22% Black, 17% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian.

On the resource side, On paper, Leesville Road Middle has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Wake County's rate of about 42%.

After controlling for student poverty, Leesville Road Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.2%, the actual is 73.1%, a residual of +3.9 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Wake County put median household income runs about $105,768, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Wake County's 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), Leesville Road Middle is one campus in the mix.

Leesville Road Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Leesville Road Middle. On composite proficiency, Leesville Road Middle comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 73.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 16%: 947 students in 2018 compared to 795 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 28% to 22%.

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