Wake Young Men's Leadership Academy

Located at 567 East Hargett St, in Raleigh, North Carolina, Wake Young Men's Leadership Academy is a micro-enrollment 9-12 campus that enrolls 262 students (grades 6 through 13), overseen by Wake County Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 761 students each, so Wake Young Men's Leadership Academy sits 66% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Wake County Schools, which oversees 198 schools and 163,176 students, Wake Young Men's Leadership Academy is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Wake Young Men's Leadership Academy reports that the most-represented group is Black (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 29% White, 16% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Wake County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Wake Young Men's Leadership Academy sits in the top 10% of North Carolina schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 68.1%; actual is 89.6%, +21.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, census data for Wake County shows median household income runs about $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), Wake Young Men's Leadership Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Moore Square Middle, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wake Young Men's Leadership Academy. On composite proficiency, Wake Young Men's Leadership Academy comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 71.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wake Young Men's Leadership Academy has increased 4%, going from 251 students in 2018 to 262 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 40% to 44% across the same window.

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