Lufkin Road Middle

Lufkin Road Middle is a middle school of sizable scale in Apex, North Carolina, overseen by Wake County Schools, serveing 1,035 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 71% above the state mean of about 605.

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

On the student-mix side, Lufkin Road Middle shows that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 22% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 11% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Wake County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lufkin Road Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.6%, the actual is 62.2%, a residual of -6.4 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Wake County indicate median household earnings sit near $105,768, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Wake County runs 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), of which Lufkin Road Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Apex Middle, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lufkin Road Middle ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 69.2%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lufkin Road Middle has fell 7%, going from 1,113 students in 2018 to 1,035 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 67% to 48% across the same window.

On allk12, members of the Lufkin Road Middle community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.