Southern Wake Academy

Southern Wake Academy is a compact 9-12 campus in Holly Springs, North Carolina, run under Southern Wake Academy. The school caters to 534 students in grades 6 through 12. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 761 students each, so Southern Wake Academy sits 30% leaner than that benchmark.

Southern Wake Academy is a school of Southern Wake Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Southern Wake Academy shows that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment; the rest looks like 11% Hispanic, 10% Black, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Wake County indicate the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Wake County runs 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), of which Southern Wake Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Herbert Akins Rd Elementary, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Southern Wake Academy.

Southern Wake Academy operates from a suburban location. Southern Wake Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 12%: 606 students in 2018 compared to 534 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 82% to 66% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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