Wakefield Middle

Wakefield Middle is a mid-tier intermediate school in Raleigh, North Carolina, run under Wake County Schools. The school caters to 803 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 605 students each, so Wakefield Middle sits 33% bigger than that benchmark.

Wakefield Middle is one of 198 schools operated by Wake County Schools, a district that teaches 163,176 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Wakefield Middle reports that 56% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 20% Black, 16% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. Compared to Wake County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Wakefield Middle reports 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Wakefield Middle higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Wake County's rate of about 42%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Wakefield Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.3%, the actual is 65.1%, a residual of -4.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Wake County indicate median household earnings sit near $105,768, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Wake County's 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), Wakefield Middle is one campus in the mix.

Wakefield High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wakefield Middle at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 57.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 15%: 944 students in 2018 compared to 803 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 63% to 56% across the same window.

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