Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Mills Park Middle, Cary, NC

Mills Park Middle is a public middle school in Cary, part of Wake County Schools. It enrolled 1,632 students in 2024-25, with 18.8 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 1,632
Teachers (FTE): 87.0
Students per teacher: 18.8
Grades: 6 to 8

This school's ratio is 3.5 higher than the district figure of 15.3. The North Carolina average across schools is 16.3. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school18.8

District15.3

North Carolina16.3

United States15.3

School details

Address: 441 Mills Park Drive, Cary, NC 27519
Phone: (919)466-1500
District: Wake County Schools
County: Wake County
Level: Middle
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: City: Midsize
NCES school ID: 370472003205

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 113
Reduced-price lunch: 11
Free or reduced-price lunch: 1247.6% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Wake County Schools

Alston Ridge Middle 1,494 students
Apex Friendship Middle 1,412 students
Herbert Akins Road Middle 1,253 students
West Millbrook Middle 1,164 students
East Garner Middle 1,109 students
Salem Middle 1,057 students
Oberlin Middle 1,049 students
Lufkin Road Middle 1,035 students
Martin Middle 1,011 students
Fuquay-Varina Middle 1,004 students
River Bend Middle 995 students
Davis Drive Middle 992 students

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.