Green Hope High

Green Hope High, a large high school in Cary, North Carolina, one of the schools within Wake County Schools, serves 2,304 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 203% bigger than the state mean of about 761.

Within Wake County Schools, which oversees 198 schools and 163,176 students, Green Hope High is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Green Hope High shows that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 37% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 112 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting Green Hope High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 13% of students at Green Hope High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Wake County (around 42%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Green Hope High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.0%, the actual is 75.7%, a residual of +0.7 points.

Around the school, Wake County reports that median household earnings sit near $105,768, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Wake County runs 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), of which Green Hope High is one.

The closest other public school is Green Hope Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Green Hope High comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 85.1%.

Green Hope High operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Green Hope High's enrollment has ticked down 21% since 2018, when it stood at 2,916 (now 2,304). Over the same period, the Asian share edged up from 31% to 37%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.