West Lake Middle

West Lake Middle is one of the reasonably sized middle schools in Apex, North Carolina, run under Wake County Schools, with 687 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Wake County Schools comprises 198 schools with combined enrollment of 163,176 students; West Lake Middle is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, West Lake Middle records that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 27% Hispanic, 20% Black, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, West Lake Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.7%, the actual is 61.1%, a residual of -4.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Wake County put median household income runs about $105,768, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), West Lake Middle is one campus in the mix.

West Lake Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Lake Middle. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), West Lake Middle ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 68.1%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. West Lake Middle's enrollment has declined 44% since 2018, when it stood at 1,219 (now 687). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 65% to 48% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the West Lake Middle community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.