Wake Preparatory Academy

Wake Preparatory Academy is a K-12 campus of roomy scale in Wake Forest, North Carolina, operated by Wake Preparatory Academy, educateing 2,617 students in grades K through 12. That puts it 258% above the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 731 students.

Operationally, Wake Preparatory Academy answers to Wake Preparatory Academy, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On demographics, Wake Preparatory Academy records that the largest single group is White at 54%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 19% Black, 15% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 122 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.1:1 average. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Franklin County's rate of about 82%.

Around the school, census data for Franklin County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,240 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Franklin County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,614 students), of which Wake Preparatory Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Richland Creek Elementary, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area. Wake Preparatory Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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