Knightdale High

Knightdale High is a high school of high-enrollment scale in Knightdale, North Carolina, one of the schools within Wake County Schools, enrolling 1,695 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 123% bigger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 761 students.

Wake County Schools comprises 198 schools with combined enrollment of 163,176 students; Knightdale High is among them.

Looking at the student body, Knightdale High records that 45% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 38% Hispanic, 10% White, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Knightdale High has 105 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Wake County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Knightdale High is in the bottom 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 58.4%; Knightdale High posts 29.0%, -29.4 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Wake County shows the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Knightdale High is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

Forestville Road Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Knightdale High comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.3%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Knightdale High has edged down 4%, going from 1,769 students in 2018 to 1,695 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 29% to 38% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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