Winston-Salem Preparatory Acad

Winston-Salem Preparatory Acad is a 9-12 campus of low-enrollment scale in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, operated by Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools, works with 369 students in grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 52% below the state mean of about 761.

Within Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools, which oversees 79 schools and 51,745 students, Winston-Salem Preparatory Acad is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Winston-Salem Preparatory Acad logs that the most-represented group is Black (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 46% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Forsyth County as a whole is about 25% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at Winston-Salem Preparatory Acad qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Forsyth County runs at roughly 88%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Winston-Salem Preparatory Acad falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.5%; this one comes in at 21.3%, -27.3 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, Forsyth County reports that median household income runs about $67,165, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Forsyth County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,902 students), Winston-Salem Preparatory Acad is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Ashley Academy, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Winston-Salem Preparatory Acad. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Winston-Salem Preparatory Acad at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 50.6%.

Winston-Salem Preparatory Acad operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 9%: 337 students in 2018 compared to 369 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 20% to 46% across the same window.

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