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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Overhills Middle administration to hear?
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Enrollment
758
Middle
DISTRICT 709 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARNETT COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370201002525
Overhills Middle
2711 Ray Road, Spring Lake, NC 28390 · (910) 436-0009 · Harnett County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL758 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 25% of North Carolina public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
15.7:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
478 students
DISTRICT 76% · 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 | 227 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 282 | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 249 | 33% |
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
44.1%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
39.9%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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
44.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.6%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% 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 Overhills Middle
Overhills Middle's state test result (44.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overhills Middle this school | 758 | 63.1% | 44.6% |
| Jacksonville Commons Middle Jacksonville | 918 | 62.6% | 45.4% |
| Pine Forest Middle Fayetteville | 703 | 59.6% | 55.0% |
| Wake Forest Middle School Wake Forest | 878 | 57.2% | 47.0% |
| Carroll Middle Raleigh | 898 | 61.1% | 45.5% |
| C C Griffin Middle Concord | 792 | 54.8% | 52.7% |
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 Overhills Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Harnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.6% | #302 of 463 | #3 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.9% | #321 of 461 | #4 of 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.1% | #291 of 463 | #1 of 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 758 | #125 of 478 | #3 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #186 of 456 | #4 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.3% | #27 of 456 | #1 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.1% | #352 of 472 | #5 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.7% | #119 of 143 | N/A |
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
758
-46 (-6%) vs 2020
-3% since 2000-01, when it was 779
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 18.3:1
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 | 758 | 48.2 | 15.7:1 | 63% (478) |
| 2023-24 | 829 | 49.2 | 16.9:1 | 59% (489) |
| 2022-23 | 799 | 50.3 | 15.9:1 | 61% (484) |
| 2020-21 | 804 | 44 | 18.3:1 | 42% (336) |
| 2017-18 | 745 | 43.5 | 17.1:1 | 53% (393) |
| 2015-16 | 747 | 38 | 19.7:1 | 54% (405) |
| 2010-11 | 1,117 | 62 | 18.0:1 | 51% (567) |
| 2000-01 | 779 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Overhills Middle.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (745 to 758); teachers up 11% (43.5 to 48.2).
About Overhills Middle
Overhills Middle is the name of a mid-sized middle school in Spring Lake, North Carolina. The school counted 758 students in 2024-25, covering grades 6 through 8. That is 25% above the average of about 605 students for middle schools in North Carolina.
Overhills Middle belongs to Harnett County Schools, a district of 29 schools and 20,095 students.
At Overhills Middle, Black students make up the biggest share, 38%. The remaining students are 28% White, 22% Hispanic, and 10% multiracial. Among people living in Harnett County, the Black share is about 20%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 72, compared with 70 nationally.
Classroom staffing at Overhills Middle totals 48.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.7:1. It is about the same as the 15.9:1 average for middle schools in North Carolina. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Overhills Middle is about 63%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Harnett County is 74%.
Among North Carolina public middle schools, Overhills Middle outscored 25%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with North Carolina schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Overhills Middle's results are 15.0 points below predicted: 44.6% against 59.6%.
For Harnett County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $71,287, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. There are 31 public schools in the county, enrolling about 20,611, Overhills Middle among them.
Overhills Elementary, about 0.2 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number 4. Ranked by average proficiency, Overhills Middle places 3rd out of 7 schools in its immediate area.
Overhills Middle has an NCES locale of City: Small.
A 6% decline took enrollment from 804 in 2020-21 to 758 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 18.3:1 to 15.7:1.
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Harnett County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
139,150
Census ACS
Median income
$71,287
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
31
20,611 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Harnett County Schools
- Overhills HighHigh · 1,981 students
- Harnett Central HighHigh · 1,522 students
- Western Harnett HighHigh · 1,324 students
- Triton HighHigh · 1,274 students
- Benhaven ElementaryElementary · 1,065 students
- Harnett Central MiddleMiddle · 1,059 students
Other schools in Spring Lake
- Overhills HighHigh · 1,981 students
- Overhills ElementaryElementary · 866 students
- William T Brown ElementaryElementary · 562 students
- Spring Lake MiddleMiddle · 500 students
- Anderson Creek AcademyElementary · 305 students
- Manchester ElementaryElementary · 254 students
Nearby schools
- Overhills Elementary0.2 mi · 866
- Overhills High0.2 mi · 1,981
- Anderson Creek Academy2.1 mi · 305
- Anderson Creek Primary3.7 mi · 553
- South Harnett Elementary5.4 mi · 476
- Manchester Elementary5.4 mi · 254
Frequently asked questions
About Overhills MiddleHow large is Overhills Middle?
Overhills Middle enrolls approximately 758 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Overhills Middle serve?
Overhills Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Overhills Middle?
Approximately 15.7:1 students per teacher at Overhills Middle.
How diverse is Overhills Middle?
Overhills Middle reports a student body of 28% White, 22% Hispanic, 38% Black, 1% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Overhills Middle in?
Overhills Middle is part of Harnett County Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.