Rolesville High

Rolesville High operates as a heavily attended secondary school in Rolesville, North Carolina, overseen by Wake County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 2,321 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 205% larger 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; Rolesville High is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rolesville High logs that the largest single group is Black at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 26% White, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Rolesville High logs 126 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.4:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Wake County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rolesville High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 63.4%; this one comes in at 36.8%, -26.6 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Wake County put median household income runs about $105,768, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Rolesville High is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

Nearest neighbor: Rolesville Elementary, around 1.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rolesville High ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 64.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Rolesville High's enrollment has expanded 7% since 2018, when it stood at 2,162 (now 2,321). Over the same period, the White share declined from 32% to 26%.

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