Neuse River Middle

Located at 2700 Old Milburnie Rd, in Raleigh, North Carolina, Neuse River Middle is a middle-of-the-pack junior high that works with 877 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Wake County Schools. That puts it 45% larger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 605 students.

Across the 198 schools in Wake County Schools (163,176 students total), Neuse River Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Neuse River Middle shows that 47% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 33% Black, 12% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Wake County's rate of about 42%.

After controlling for student poverty, Neuse River Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 35.5%, a residual of -12.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Wake County) reports that median household earnings sit near $105,768, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Wake County's 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), Neuse River Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Beaverdam Elementary, around 1.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Neuse River Middle comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.8%.

Neuse River Middle operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Neuse River Middle has climbed 39%, going from 632 students in 2018 to 877 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 38% to 33% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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