Speight Middle

Speight Middle, a compact 6-8 campus in Stantonsburg, North Carolina, overseen by Wilson County Schools, educates 281 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 54% smaller than the state mean of about 605.

Within Wilson County Schools, which oversees 25 schools and 10,451 students, Speight Middle is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Speight Middle records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 27% White, 27% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Wilson County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Speight Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.6%, the actual is 56.4%, a residual of +7.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Wilson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,423 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Wilson County's 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,482 students), Speight Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Stantonsburg Elementary, around 2.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Speight Middle comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 49.4%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 19%: 346 students in 2018 compared to 281 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 28% to 40%.

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