Wake Forest Middle School

Located at 1800 S Main St, in Wake Forest, North Carolina, Wake Forest Middle School is a medium-sized intermediate school that teaches 878 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Wake County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 45% bigger than the state mean of about 605.

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

On the student-mix side, Wake Forest Middle School reports that the largest single group is Black at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 31% White, 23% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Wake Forest Middle School has 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 57% of students at Wake Forest Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Wake County (around 42%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Wake Forest Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.4%, the actual is 47.0%, a residual of -14.4 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Wake County put the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Wake County runs 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), of which Wake Forest Middle School is one.

Heritage Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Wake Forest Middle School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 65.1%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wake Forest Middle School has decreased 26%, going from 1,188 students in 2018 to 878 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 45% to 31%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

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