Zebulon Middle

Zebulon Middle operates as a mid-tier junior high in Zebulon, North Carolina, run under Wake County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 772 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 28% larger than typical.

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

Demographically, Zebulon Middle logs that the most-represented group is Black (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 14% White, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Wake County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 100% of students at Zebulon Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Wake County (around 42%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Zebulon Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 44.0%, a residual of -4.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Wake County indicate median household income runs about $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. In all, Wake County runs 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), of which Zebulon Middle is one.

The closest other public school is East Wake Academy, roughly 0.4 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Zebulon Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.6%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 24%: 621 students in 2018 compared to 772 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 25% to 14% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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