Pine Springs Preparatory Academy

Pine Springs Preparatory Academy is an elementary school located in Holly Springs, North Carolina, in Wake County. Enrolled students number 1,258 students, in kindergarten through 8. Enrollment is 169% higher than the average for elementary schools in North Carolina, which is about 467.

Federal records list Pine Springs Preparatory Academy as its own district.

At Pine Springs Preparatory Academy, White students make up 72% of the student body. The next largest groups are 10% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 4% Black. The school's White share is 14 points above the 58% share among Wake County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 46% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Teachers at the school number 83 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 15.2:1. That matches the 14.9:1 average for elementary schools in North Carolina fairly closely.

Wake County has these Census figures: the median household income is $105,768, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. In all, Wake County has 237 public schools and roughly 184,790 students.

Pine Springs Preparatory Remote Academy is the public school closest to Pine Springs Preparatory Academy, less than a tenth of a mile away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8.

Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. Pine Springs Preparatory Academy holds a charter, making it a public charter school.

Enrollment was 825 in 2020-21 and 1,258 in 2024-25. Large swings like this can come from changes to the grades a school serves. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 18.3:1; by 2024-25 it was 15.2:1.

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