Wake County Schools
Wake County, North Carolina · Grades PK-13
- Address
- 5625 Dillard Drive, Cary, NC 27518
Open in Maps → - Phone
- (919) 431-7400
- NCES agency ID
- 3704720
- State LEA ID
- NC-920
Enrollment and school counts are the state’s 2024-2025figures where reported, otherwise the federal NCES directory.
School calendar
Term dates, holidays, breaks and teacher workdays for Wake County Schools, as the district publishes them — with printable PDFs and calendar files you can subscribe to.
View the calendar →NC School Report Card
2024-2025Official accountability results published by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. School Performance Grades combine achievement (80%) with academic growth (20%).
Schools by type
| School type | Schools | Average students |
|---|---|---|
| Elementary | 120 | 585 |
| Middle | 40 | 892 |
| High | 33 | 1,617 |
| 6-12 | 3 | 203 |
| K-8 | 2 | 326 |
| All schools | 198 | -- |
School performance grades
| Grade | Schools | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 23 | 12.0% |
| B | 78 | 40.6% |
| C | 59 | 30.7% |
| D | 30 | 15.6% |
| F | 2 | 1.0% |
| All graded schools | 192 | 100.0% |
School growth status
| Growth | Schools | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Exceeded | 58 | 30.4% |
| Met | 84 | 44.0% |
| Not Met | 49 | 25.7% |
Student performance by subject
| Subject | Grade-level proficient | Career & college ready |
|---|---|---|
| NC Math 3 | 75.8% | 56.6% |
| English II | 70.3% | 48.3% |
| Science (grades 5 & 8) | 69% | 51.4% |
| Mathematics (grades 3–8) | 66.1% | 50.5% |
| Reading (grades 3–8) | 61.9% | 42.9% |
| Biology | 60.9% | 46.2% |
| NC Math 1 | 32.5% | 10.9% |
Grade-level proficient is achievement levels 3–5; career and college ready is the higher bar of levels 4–5.
Outcomes
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| 4-year cohort graduation rate | 90.7% |
| ACT WorkKeys credential earned | 72% |
| Students completing Math III | 91.3% |
| Passed end-of-grade assessments | 56.6% |
| Students promoted to the next grade | 76.9% |
| Students retained in grade | 23.1% |
| English learners making progress (of 16,975) | 39.1% |
| Schools identified as low-performing | 30 of 191 |
Download the report card
The Wake County Schools report card as a two-page interactive PDF — bookmarked sections, donut and bar charts, and the NC DPI and NCES sources cited with working links.
Student Demographics
Gender Distribution
Total Students: 163,176Student counts for Wake County Schools, 2024-2025, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Percentages are of 163,176 students and may not total 100% because of rounding.
Students
Student Population
Students Counted: 169,537Student indicators for Wake County Schools, 2024-2025, from the North Carolina School Report Cards. Attendance is out of the 169,537 students DPI counted, added up from the district’s own schools. A student is chronically absent after missing 10% or more of the days enrolled; the other measures overlap it and each other.
Teachers
Licensing & Certification
Total Teachers: 9,758.4 FTETeacher figures for Wake County Schools, 2024-2025, from the North Carolina School Report Cards. Counts are full-time equivalents, not headcount, added up from the district’s own schools. Licensing and certification percentages are each out of 9,758.4 FTE.
Community profile
ACS-ED 2019-23Who lives in the area this district serves, from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey as tabulated for school district boundaries by NCES. These describe the community, not the students enrolled.
Race and ethnicity
Shares are of the district's total population and are rounded to whole percentages in the source profile.
Families by type
Housing status of families with children in public school
Housing structure type
Year the home was built
Median household income
Households with children in public school earn $31,767 more at the median than households across the district as a whole.
Wellbeing indicators
U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-23 five-year estimates, tabulated for school district boundaries by NCES.
Wake County Schools boundary map
198 campusesLoading the map…
Click any campus for its details. District boundary from the Census school district geography published by NCES; campus locations from the NCES Common Core of Data.
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Source documents
Directory figures are from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD), U.S. Department of Education for 2024-2025.Methodology →