Wake County Public School System
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The Wake County Public School System is a public school district located in Wake County, North Carolina. With more than 128,000 students enrolled as of the 2006/07 school year, it is the second largest public school district in North Carolina. It is likely to become the North Carolina's largest school district prior to the start of the 2007/08 school year. It ranks 21st largest nationwide.
The district is notable for its innovative attempts at desegregation. Schools are integrated based on parent's reported income level, with a goal of having a maximum percentage of low income children in one school at 40%. Many suburban students ride buses to magnet schools located in the inner city. Lower income students in neighborhoods with many poor people are assigned to schools in the suburbs. The desegregation program is supported by some local residents. Test scores have risen over time, with some crediting it to the program, with 91% of third through eighth grade students performing at or above grade level on standardized tests. [1]
The Wake County Public School System has made headlines recently for plans to convert 19 elementary schools and three middle schools to a mandatory year round calendar. It would put more than a third of the elementary schools on the year-round calendar starting in July 2007. Thousands of Wake County residents have signed an online petition[2] against mandating year round school attendance. The petition signers think it should be optional for families, rather than forced on them, and are continuing to resist this proposal. [3] A group of parents has filed a lawsuit to try to block the school system from converting the schools.[4]
Wake County Public Schools now names schools for the roads they are built on (such as Athens Drive and Leesville Road) or the areas they serve (such as Apex High and Garner High). Schools are no longer named after people, but older schools were granfathered.[5]
There are currently 150 public schools in the system, consisting of 93 elementary (K-5), 28 middle (6-8), 22 high (9-12), and 7 special/optional schools. It is the 21st largest school system in the nation.
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[edit] Public High Schools (9-12)
[edit] Raleigh
- Athens Drive High School
- Broughton High School
- Enloe High School
- Leesville Road High School
- Millbrook High School
- Sanderson High School
- Southeast Raleigh High School
- Wakefield High School
[edit] Apex
- Apex High School
- Middle Creek High School
[edit] Cary
[edit] Fuquay-Varina
- Fuquay-Varina High School
[edit] Garner
- Garner High School
[edit] Holly Springs
- Holly Springs High School (1st school year '06-'07 in session)
[edit] Knightdale
- Knightdale High School
[edit] Wake-Forest
- Wake Forest-Rolesville High School
[edit] Wendell
- East Wake High School
- East Wake High School of Health Science
[edit] Public Middle Schools (6-8)
[edit] Raleigh
- Carnage Middle School
- Carroll Middle School
- Centennial Campus Middle School
- Daniels Middle School
- Dillard Drive Middle School
- Durant Road Middle School
- East Millbrook Middle School
- East Wake Middle School
- Leesville Road Middle School
- Ligon Middle School
- Martin Middle School
- Moore Square Middle School
- Wakefield Middle School
- West Millbrook Middle School
[edit] Apex
- Apex Middle School
- Lufkin Road Middle School
- Salem Middle School
- West Lake Middle School
[edit] Cary
- Reedy Creek Middle School
- West Cary Middle School
- Davis Drive Middle School
- East Cary Middle School
[edit] Fuquay-Varina
- Fuquay-Varina Middle School
[edit] Garner
- East Garner Middle School
- North Garner Middle School
[edit] Holly Springs
- Holly Ridge Middle School
[edit] Wake Forest
- Heritage Middle School
- Wake Forest-Rolesville Middle School
[edit] Zebulon
- Zebulon Middle School
[edit] Public Elementary Schools (K-5)
[edit] Raleigh
- Baileywick Elementary School
- Barwell Road Elementary School (opens August 2006)
- Brassfield Elementary School
- Brentwood Elementary School
- Brier Creek Elementary School (opens August 2006)
- Brooks Elementary School
- Bugg Elementary School
- Combs Elementary School
- Conn Elementary School
- Dillard Drive Elementary School
- Douglas Elementary School
- Durant Road Elementary School
- E19 (opens August 2006)
- Fox Road Elementary School
- Fuller Elementary School
- Green Elementary School
- Harris Creek Elementary School
- Hilburn Drive Elementary School
- Hunter Elementary School
- Jeffreys Grove Elementary School
- Joyner Elementary School
- Lacy Elementary School
- Lead Mine Elementary School
- Leesville Road Elementary School
- Lynn Road Elementary School
- Millbrook Elementary School
- North Ridge Elementary School
- Oak Grove Elementary School
- Olds Elementary School
- Partnership Elementary School
- Pleasant Union Elementary School
- Poe Elementary School
- Powell Elementary School
- Root Elementary School
- Smith Elementary School
- Stough Elementary School
- Swift Creek Elementary School
- Underwood Elementary School
- Vance Elementary School
- Wakefield Elementary School
- Washington Elementary School
- Wilburn Elementary School
- Wildwood Forest Elementary School
- Wiley Elementary School
- Yates Mill Elementary School
- York Elementary School
[edit] Apex
- Apex Elementary School
- Baucom Elementary School
- Middle Creek Elementary School
- Olive Chapel Elementary School
- Salem Elementary School
- West Lake Elementary School
[edit] Cary
- Adams Elementary School
- Briarcliff Elementary School
- Carpenter Elementary School (opens August 2006)
- Cary Elementary School
- Davis Drive Elementary School
- Farmington Woods Elementary School
- Green Hope Elementary School
- Highcroft Drive Elementary School
- Kingswood Elementary School
- Northwoods Elementary School
- Penny Road Elementary School
- Reedy Creek Elementary School
- Turner Creek Elementary School
- Weatherstone Elementary School
[edit] Fuquay-Varina
- Ballentine Elementary School
- Fuquay-Varina Elementary School
- Lincoln Heights Elementary School
[edit] Garner
- Aversboro Elementary School
- Creech Road Elementary School
- Rand Road Elementary School
- Timber Drive Elementary School
- Vandora Springs Elementary School
[edit] Holly Springs
- Holly Grove Elementary School (Holly Grove will be occupying 1 wing of Holly Springs High School for the 2006-2007 school year while the actual elementary school is under construction)
- Holly Ridge Elementary School
- Holly Springs Elementary School
[edit] Knightdale
- Forestville Road Elementary School
- Hodge Road Elementary School
- Knightdale Elementary School
- Lockhart Elementary School
[edit] Morrisville
- Cedar Fork Elementary School
- Morrisville Elementary School
[edit] Rolesville
- Rolesville Elementary School
[edit] Wake Forest
- Forest Pines Elementary School
- Heritage Elementary School
- Jones Dairy Elementary School
- Wake Forest Elementary School
[edit] Wendell
- Carver Elementary School
- Wakelon Elementary School
[edit] Willow Springs
- Willow Springs Elementary School
[edit] Zebulon
- Zebulon Elementary School
[edit] Special/Optional Schools (all grades)
[edit] Raleigh
- Bridges Program (K-5)
- Longview School (6-12)
- Mary E. Phillips High School (9-12)
- Mt. Vernon School (6-8)
- Project Enlightenment (Pre-K)
- Richard Milburn School (6-12)
- River Oaks Middle School (6-8)
- Wake Early College of Health and Sciences (9-12]
