Moore Square Middle

Set in Raleigh, North Carolina, Moore Square Middle is a medium-sized intermediate school, operated by Wake County Schools. It caters to 594 students across grades 6 through 8.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Moore Square Middle records that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 28% Black, 12% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Wake County (around 42%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Moore Square Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.0%, the actual is 72.8%, a residual of +2.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Wake County indicate the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Moore Square Middle is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

Wake Young Men's Leadership Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Moore Square Middle. On composite proficiency, Moore Square Middle comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 72.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Moore Square Middle has increased 15%, going from 515 students in 2018 to 594 in 2025.

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