Mills Park Middle

As an expansive middle school in Cary, North Carolina, Mills Park Middle hosts 1,632 students from grades 6 through 8, part of Wake County Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 605 students each, so Mills Park Middle sits 170% bigger than that benchmark.

Wake County Schools comprises 198 schools with combined enrollment of 163,176 students; Mills Park Middle is among them.

Demographically, Mills Park Middle lists that the largest single group is Asian at 55%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 29% White, 7% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Wake County as a whole is about 9% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Mills Park Middle has 87 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.7:1. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 8% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Wake County (around 42%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mills Park Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.5%, the actual is 91.8%, a residual of +15.3 points.

In the broader community, Wake County reports that median household income runs about $105,768, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Mills Park Middle is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

Mills Park Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mills Park Middle ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 81.3%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mills Park Middle has edged down 7%, going from 1,750 students in 2018 to 1,632 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment edged up from 35% to 55% over that span.

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