Apex Friendship High
Apex, NC · High School · Grades 9-12
Apex Friendship High is a high school in Apex, NC with 2,772 students enrolled and a 69% proficiency rate. Part of Wake County Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Apex Friendship High is a high school located in Apex, North Carolina. The school serves 2,772 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 21.0:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 69% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 90% graduation rate.
10% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Apex Friendship High is part of the Wake County Schools in North Carolina.
How This School Compares
Apex Friendship High has 2,772 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Wake County Schools (811 students). Its 69% proficiency rate is 15 percentage points above the district average of 54%. Compared to the North Carolina state average of 43%, the school performs 26 points higher. The 21.0:1 student-teacher ratio is above the national average of 16:1.
Frequently Asked Questions
Apex Friendship High has 2,772 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 21.0:1.
According to EDFacts data, 69% of students at Apex Friendship High meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Apex Friendship High has a 90% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Apex Friendship High is part of the Wake County Schools in Apex, North Carolina. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
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.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.