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Via: WRAL.com

A new report out suggest that 7 of the 10 most violent public schools in Wake County are middle schools…

And what’s worse, most of the kids that are “causing problems” won’t get the help they need because of budget cuts.  The state has a formula it uses to determine violence in schools and if you take out the drug ssession numbers, the crime rate is higher in Wake county middle schools than in high schools…

10 MOST VIOLENT SCHOOLS IN WAKE COUNTY

RANK
SCHOOL OFFENSES STUDENTS RATE PER 1,000
1 East Wake Middle 33 1,057 31.2
2 Moore Square Magnet Middle 12 473 25.4
3 West Millbrook Middle 22 890 24.7
4 East Garner Middle 27 1,111 24.3
5 Southeast Raleigh High 32 1,584 20.2
6 Garner High 43 2,238 19.2
7 North Garner Middle 22 1,152 19.1
8 Carroll Middle 14 785 17.8
9 Carnage Middle 19 1,083 17.5
10 Knightdale High 30 1,752 17.1