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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Mac Williams Middle this year?
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Enrollment
1,109
Middle
DISTRICT 618 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUMBERLAND COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370001101832
Mac Williams Middle
4644 Clinton Road, Fayetteville, NC 28312 · (910) 483-8222 · Cumberland County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,109 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 44% of North Carolina public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
17.7:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.8:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
677 students
DISTRICT 89% · 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 | 361 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 387 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 361 | 33% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
54.8%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
46.1%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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
52.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.2%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 Mac Williams Middle
Mac Williams Middle's state test result (52.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mac Williams Middle this school | 1,109 | 61.0% | 52.6% |
| Gray's Creek Middle Hope Mills | 1,068 | 53.4% | 53.9% |
| Hunters Creek Middle Jacksonville | 856 | 57.2% | 51.5% |
| Jacksonville Commons Middle Jacksonville | 918 | 62.6% | 45.4% |
| Western Alamance Middle Elon | 837 | 55.0% | 44.4% |
| Sun Valley Middle Indian Trail | 909 | 54.3% | 70.2% |
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 Mac Williams Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.6% | #209 of 463 | #7 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.1% | #265 of 461 | #6 of 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.8% | #152 of 463 | #6 of 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,109 | #18 of 478 | #1 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.7:1 | #346 of 456 | #13 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.7% | #85 of 456 | #6 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.0% | #358 of 472 | #12 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.6% | #135 of 143 | #9 of 9 |
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
1,109
+8 (+1%) vs 2020
-8% since 2000-01, when it was 1,202
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 1,109 | 62.5 | 17.7:1 | 61% (677) |
| 2023-24 | 1,163 | 58.7 | 19.8:1 | 57% (665) |
| 2022-23 | 1,151 | 60.5 | 19.0:1 | 58% (667) |
| 2020-21 | 1,101 | 68 | 16.2:1 | 61% (676) |
| 2017-18 | 1,102 | 62.9 | 17.5:1 | 51% (562) |
| 2015-16 | 1,128 | 65 | 17.4:1 | 54% (605) |
| 2010-11 | 1,210 | 75 | 16.1:1 | 50% (611) |
| 2000-01 | 1,202 | 58 | 20.7:1 | 48% (574) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mac Williams Middle.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (1,102 to 1,109); teachers down 1% (62.9 to 62.5).
About Mac Williams Middle
Mac Williams Middle is a large middle-grades school located in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The school reports 1,109 students in grades 6 through 8. The school's enrollment is 83% bigger than the 605 average for middle schools in North Carolina.
The 86 schools in Cumberland County Schools enroll 49,002 students altogether, Mac Williams Middle among them.
The most common group at Mac Williams Middle is White students, at 46%. Other groups include 28% Black, 13% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 2% Native American. County-wide, about 42% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 69% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The count of teachers at Mac Williams Middle is 62.5 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 17.7:1. That is higher than the 15.9:1 average for middle schools in North Carolina. The school counts 677 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 61%. The 86% average for public schools in Cumberland County is 25 points higher.
Mac Williams Middle is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 44% of North Carolina public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The model predicts 60.2% for a school in North Carolina with Mac Williams Middle's free or reduced-price lunch share. Mac Williams Middle posts 52.6%.
Mac Williams Middle is located in Cumberland County, where the median household income is $61,291, roughly 28% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. Mac Williams Middle is one of 89 public schools in the county.
Cape Fear High is located about 0.2 miles from Mac Williams Middle. The five-mile area around Mac Williams Middle holds 6 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 59.2%, higher than Mac Williams Middle's 52.6%.
In the federal locale system, Mac Williams Middle is coded Rural: Fringe, for schools in rural territory close to an urban area.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 1,109, starting from 1,101. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (17.7:1) than in 2020-21 (16.2:1).
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Cumberland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
338,545
Census ACS
Median income
$61,291
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
89
50,815 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cumberland County Schools
- Jack Britt HighHigh · 1,940 students
- Pine Forest HighHigh · 1,551 students
- Cape Fear HighHigh · 1,515 students
- South View HighHigh · 1,461 students
- Gray's Creek HighHigh · 1,458 students
- Seventy-First HighHigh · 1,332 students
Other schools in Fayetteville
- Jack Britt HighHigh · 1,940 students
- Pine Forest HighHigh · 1,551 students
- Cape Fear HighHigh · 1,515 students
- Seventy-First HighHigh · 1,332 students
- Westover HighHigh · 1,234 students
- Terry Sanford HighHigh · 1,201 students
Nearby schools
- Cape Fear High0.2 mi · 1,515
- Sunnyside Elementary1.8 mi · 362
- J W Seabrook Elementary3.4 mi · 271
- Armstrong Elementary4.2 mi · 456
- Stedman Elementary4.2 mi · 284
- Stedman Primary4.5 mi · 161
Frequently asked questions
About Mac Williams MiddleHow large is Mac Williams Middle?
Mac Williams Middle enrolls approximately 1,109 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Mac Williams Middle serve?
Mac Williams Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Mac Williams Middle?
Approximately 17.7:1 students per teacher at Mac Williams Middle.
What is the student diversity at Mac Williams Middle?
Student demographics at Mac Williams Middle are roughly 46% White, 13% Hispanic, 28% Black, 1% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Mac Williams Middle public or private?
Mac Williams Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Cumberland County Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.