Wake County Public School System

Facts and figures

• Enrollment (2010-11): 143,289 students; largest school system in North Carolina, 18th largest in the nation
   
• Schools (2010-11): 163, including 103 elementary, 32 middle, 24 high, and four special/optional schools
   
• Student racial composition (2010-11): 49.5 percent white; 24.8 percent black; 14.6 percent Hispanic; 6.0 percent Asian; 4.5 percent multi-racial; 0.4 percent American Indian
   
• Teacher/student ratio (2010-11): Grades K-3, 1:21; grades 4-9, 1:26; grades 10-12, 1:29
   
• Teacher salaries (2010-11): $34,462 (bachelor's and first year of teaching) to $75,596 (master's, national board certified and 29+ years)
   
• Number of instructional personnel (2010-11): 10,683 (teachers, guidance, media, etc.)
   
• Number of teachers (2010-11): 9,342
   
• Number of employees (2010-11): 17,572 (not including temporary hourly)
   
• Budget (2010-11): Approximately $1.2 billion with 88 percent going to schools (people, supplies, training), 7 percent to auxiliary services, 2 percent to instructional services, 1 percent to administrative services, 1 percent to technology services and 1 percent organizational development, communications, area superintendents and the Wake County Board of Education
   
• School buses: (2010-11) 920 yellow school buses carrying more than 73,000 students daily
   
• Mobile classrooms (2010-11): 1,071
   
• Area: 864 square miles in Wake County
   
• Number of graduates (2009-10): 8,378

• Graduates pursuing higher education (2009-10): 87.9 percent planned to pursue some form of higher education: 65 percent to four-year colleges or universities and 26 percent to two-year colleges

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