Wake County reassignment and capping

Reassignment

The assignment plans and capped schools change yearly as new schools are opened. Wake County is a county wide system and one of the largest school systems in the country.  The Triangle Area is growing fast and Wake County is keeping up with the growth by opening new schools. If you look at the construction schedule of schools opening you can see that there will be lots of changes coming as the new schools open.

Every year, as long as I have lived in the Triangle (a VERY long time),  the news is full of stories of parents protesting the latest assignment plan. Some neighborhoods have been reassigned to 10 different schools over the years. The thing to remember is that the schools in the Cary, Apex and Holly Springs areas are all good.

Wake County bases the reassignment plans on four factors, all weighted the same (they say).

1. Student achievement.  Income and test score diversity included.
2. Stability. Keeping as many kids in their same school.
3. Operational efficiency. Overcrowded schools vs under enrolled schools.
4. Proximity. This is hard when schools are just a few miles apart. If you look at the attendance maps(here is the sought after Green Hope High attendance map) you can see  that you can be across the street from a school and be assigned elsewhere.You can look up the assigned school by address here.

Capped Schools

When a school is at or over enrollment capacity the school is capped. New people moving into the district are sent to an overflow school. Sometimes a capped school may have some openings so you don’t know for sure until you go to register at your base school.  The overflow school may not even be the same calendar option (year around or traditional) as the base school. The capping situation just keeps getting worse.  The State legislature reduced the number of students  in k-3 from 21 to 17. There isn’t room at many schools for the extra classes so more caps for 2018-2019.

List of Wake elementary schools and proposed strategies to deal with the legislative class size reduction in k-3rd grades.

Capped schools for 2018-19

The overflow schools can change so check with the school before you buy a house. No guarantees with Wake schools.

Capped Elementary Schools:

Mills Park (overflow White Oak), Scotts Ridge Salem or Apex), Olive Chapel (overflow Baucom), Carpenter (overflow Turner Creek),

Holly Grove (overflow Herbert Akins)

Fuquay-Varina,  Sycamore Creek, Vance,Willow Springs, Rogers Lane, Wendell, Harris Creek,Baileywick,Combs

Capped Middle Schools:

Mills Park (overflow West Cary), Reedy Creek

Capped High Schools:

Enloe, Fuquay-Varina, Heritage, Panther Creek (overflow Green Hope or Apex at Green Level)

The high school capping in West Cary is likely to change in 2019-2020 when the Apex High renovation is complete and Green Level opens to West Cary. This may affect both Panther Creek and Green Hope High attendance areas.   Don’t buy a house based on the school because you may be reassigned!

Elementary

• 12 Oaks
• Addison Park
• Amberly
• Autumn Park
• Autumn Ridge
• Braxton Village
• Cameron Pond
• Cary Park
• Downing Glen
• Downing Village
• Forest Springs
• Garrison
• Greystone
• Hamlet at the Park
• Holly Glen
• Holly Pointe
• Kildare Farms
• Oliver Creek
• Pirates Cove
• Providence Place
• Ridgemont
• Savannah
• Town Hall Commons
• Troon at Kildare
• Twin Lakes
• Weldon Ridge
• Weston Estates
• Weycroft
• Wrenhurst

Neighborhoods in the Cary area (Morrisville, Cary, Holly Springs Apex) with capped high school

• 12 Oaks
• 55 James at Midtown
• Amhurst
• Arbor Commons
• Arbor Creek
• Ashley Downs
• Autumn Ridge
• Avent Acres
• Beckett Crossing
• Bella Casa
• Bishops Gate
• Bradley Park
• Bradley Terrace
• Braxton Forest
• Brookgreen Forest
• Brookstone
• Cameron Park
• Cobblestone Ridge
• Charleston Village
• Cotswold
• Crocketts Ridge
• Deveraux
• Dogwood Ridge
• Fair Hill
• Fair Oaks
• Forest Springs
• Garrison
• Haddon Hall
• Haddon Place
• Hallmark
• Hallmark West
• Harmony
• Holly Glen
• Holly Pointe
• Kalarney Pointe
• Kildare Farms
• Kildare Estates
• Lakeside
• Laurel Park
• Lexington
• McGregor Downs
• McGregor West
• Merion
• Miramont
• Montclare
• Myrtle Wood
• Newbury Park
• Oak Hall
• Oaks of Avent Acres
• Old Mill Village
• Olde Salem
• Old Mill Village
• Olive Chapel Park
• Oliver Creek
• Peakway Village
• Park Place
• Pemberley
• Perry Hills
• Remington
• Salem Oaks
• Salem Village
• Scots Laurel
• Scotts Mill
• Seagroves Farm
• Sommerset Farm
• Southchase
• St James Village
• Stonebridge
• Sunset Pointe
• Sunset Ridge
• Tatton Place
• The Groves
• The Villages of Apex
• Twisted Creek
• Valleyfield
• Waterford Green
• Weathersby
• Wescott
• Whitehall Manor
• Whitley Village
• Wibon Ridge
• Windcrest
• Windermere
• Woodcreek
• Woodlands at Oak Hall

Please let me know if you have more information to add! This is a very serious subject for my out of town clients and I want to provide the most complete information.