Wake County Schools
Raleigh, NC · 197 schools · 159,778 students
Largest Schools
Schools ranked by enrollment. Proficiency data from EDFacts where available.
Other Districts in North Carolina
180 schools · 144,197 students · 46% proficiency
124 schools · 68,894 students · 41% proficiency
79 schools · 52,717 students · 40% proficiency
86 schools · 49,661 students · 37% proficiency
Frequently Asked Questions
Wake County Schools has 197 schools serving 159,778 students. The average proficiency rate across the district is 54%. The average graduation rate is 81%.
Wake County Schools operates 197 public schools, including Apex Friendship High, Leesville Road High, Enloe High, Apex High, Panther Creek High and others. The full school list is shown above with enrollment and grade-level details.
The average graduation rate across high schools in Wake County Schools is approximately 81% (EDFacts district-level data, most recent reporting year). Individual school graduation rates may vary; this is a district-wide adjusted-cohort graduation rate.
The largest school in Wake County Schools is Apex Friendship High with 2,772 students.
Wake County Schools serves 159,778 students across 197 schools in NC, per the latest NCES Common Core of Data enrollment.
Wake County Schools's average proficiency rate of 54% (math and reading combined, EDFacts) is around average for US public school districts. "Good" depends on what you value — proficiency is one signal; enrollment trends, class size, graduation rates, and district resources also matter. Check individual school pages for granular data.
Student-teacher ratios are reported at the school level by NCES, not aggregated at the district level in our dataset. Open any individual school page in Wake County Schools to see its specific student-teacher ratio. The US national average is approximately 16:1 for public schools.
All data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (enrollment, school count, demographics) and EDFacts assessment results (proficiency rates, graduation rates). Proficiency and graduation rates are reported at the district level. Both are federal sources used by the US Department of Education.
School performance data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments.
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.