Wake County School and University Information

Wake County Public and Private schools

As the 19^th largest public school system in the United States and the second largest public school system in the state of North Carolina, Wake County Public Schools has an enrollment of 153,000 students attending over 153 schools. Because of the accelerated annual enrollment growth, the Wake County Public School System expects to gain over 5,000 new students for the 2008-2009 academic school year. To address the growth of the Triangle area, the school system is converting more traditional calendar schools to year round based schools. Another challenge when attempting to keep up with area growth is to build more schools which seems logical except for the ever-present Wake County budget constraints. The Wake County Board of Commissioners and the Wake County School Board are working together to address these growth issues and provide the high quality education our children so richly deserve.

Wake County - Connected to the Triangle!

The close connection and proximity to our local universities makes Wake County a center for higher learning plus Wake County is the hub of research and development in light of the Research Triangle Park (RTP) which is situated on Wake County’s western fringe. Because convenient transportation is critical to any area’s success and vitality, Wake residents and businesses are served by the RDU International Airport, a network of major highways including several Interstate highways (I-40 and I-85) plus Amtrak rail service. Home to the world headquarters of SAS Institute, the dynamic city of Cary is located west of Raleigh. Wake County benefits from its close proximity to the “City of Medicine”, Durham and the world-renown Duke Medical Center and Duke University. Located within the Wake County borders you will find the following institutions, colleges and universities including:

· North Carolina State University – West Raleigh
· Shaw University – South Raleigh
· Peace College – Central Raleigh
· Meredith University – West Raleigh
· Saint Augustine’s University – Southeast Raleigh
· Wake Technical Community College – Main campus south of Raleigh and north of Fuquay-Varina
· Southeastern Theological Seminary – Downtown Wake Forest

In case you didn’t know, the cities of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill are the three key cities that form the Triangle area. As you can clearly see, Wake County is an important component of the identity of the Triangle area.

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