Wake Forest High School

Located at 420 West Stadium Drive, in Wake Forest, North Carolina, Wake Forest High School is a substantial secondary school that enrolls 2,043 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Wake County Schools. That puts it 168% 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; Wake Forest High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Wake Forest High School lists that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 23% Black, 18% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 109 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.8:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Wake County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Wake Forest High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.6%, the actual is 56.2%, a residual of -13.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Wake County put the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Wake County's 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), Wake Forest High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Wake Forest Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wake Forest High School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wake Forest High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 65.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 7%: 2,194 students in 2018 compared to 2,043 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 59% to 51% across the same window.

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