Demographic Studies:
Reports, Analyses, Projects

Formats Available

• School Statistics and Maps, 2010-2011, a 196-page annual report, describes the Wake County Public School System. The report is filled with maps, facts and figures, and includes six main sections (click on an individual section below):
  Introduction
  I. WCPSS Overview
  II. School Board Information
  III. Quick Facts by School, by Educational Level
  IV. Growth Sections:
  IVa. Growth, IVb. Projections, IVc. CIP 2006 Implementation
  V. Detailed School Reports, Sections:
  Va. Membership; Vb. Race/Ethnicity; Vc.Special Needs, Performance; Vd. AG Program; Ve. Spec. Ed.; Vf. Capacities; Vg. Districts/Municipalities; Vh. Attendance

Annual Report
WCPSS School Statistics and Maps, 2009-10, March 10, 2010 (Full Report - 163 Pages)

• School Statistics and Maps, 2009-2010, a 163-page annual report, describes the Wake County Public School System. The report is filled with maps, facts and figures, and includes six main sections (click on an individual section below, or view the whole document here):
  Introduction
  I. WCPSS Overview
  II. School Board Information
  III. Quick Facts by School, by Educational Level
  IV. Growth, Projections, and CIP 2006 Implementation
  V. Detailed School Reports, Sections:
  VA. Membership; VB. Race/Ethnicity; VC.Special Needs, Performance; VD. AG Program; VE. Spec. Ed.; VF. Capacities; VG. Districts; VH. Attendance

• School Statistics and Maps, 2008-2009, a 157-page annual report, describes the Wake County Public School System. The report is filled with maps, facts and figures, and includes five main sections:
  Introduction |I. WCPSS Overview| II. Quick Facts By School by Educational Level | III. Detailed School Reports | IV. Growth, Projections, and CIP 2006 Implementation.
  
  Full Report: |PDF, HIGH-Res, ~20MB| |PDF, LOW-Res, ~5 MB|

• School Statistics and Maps 2007-08 report was created to offer a snapshot of the current demographics in the System through a data-driven and visually-pleasing manner. Information includes an overview, quick facts, individual school reports, student demographics, and enrollment projections.
  TABLE OF CONTENTS:

  i	Introduction, Table of Contents	pages i-iv
  I.	Overview	Tab 1, pages 1-24
  II.	Quick Facts by Educational Level	Tab 2, pages 25-38
  III.	School Reports (20th Day)	Tab 3, pages 39-100
  IV.	Projections and CIP 2006	Tab 4, pages 101-114

• Academic Year 2008-09
  The purpose of the 2008-09 assignment pattern analysis is to provide information about the (radial) distance at which students live from the schools they attend. Please note that this study is not intended to measure travel distance of an individual student, but to give the general bounds within which students live from the school they attend

• Academic Year, 2006-07
  Distance From Student Residence to Attending School Report (pdf) presents 2006-2007 academic year distance analyses and student assignment patterns for 143 individual schools by educational level (93 elementary, 28 middle, 22 high), that includes traditional, magnet, year-round and modified calendar schools, with the exception of four special/optional schools: Longview, Mt. Vernon, Phillips, and River Oaks Middle. Information is presented in visual format (maps) and tabular format.
  
  
• Academic Year, 2003-04 (html)
  District Summary and Elementary School report is available in visual format (maps) and tabular format.
  

MARKET SHARE REPORT
Students Leaving and Entering WCPSS

• Academic Year 2010-11
• Academic Year 2009-10
• Academic Year 2008-09
• Academic Year 2007-08
• Academic Year 2006-07
• Academic Year 2005-06

• The purpose of developing a Long-Range School Plan (LRSP) was to create an analytical, data-driven process that incorporates land use and future developments into determining the student growth by place of residence, and to determine optimal target areas for future school sites. The LRSP is a result of collaborative effort between...
• Long-Range School Plan, 2005-2025

• Long-Range School Plan, 2008-2030 (Update)

• BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED BY WAKE COUNTY JURISDICTION BY YEAR, AND TYPE
  Comparison of 2007 and 2008: Total Permits January- July,
• Historic Data by Total Permits and Total Values
  

• See satellite photos and street-level pictures (when available) of your school. You can view and navigate within street-level imagery.

• Overview:
  I. Two “Colorful” Demographic Processes
  II. The National, Regional, and NC Contexts
  III. Implications and Challenges
  IV. Discussion

• Overview
  Description of data
• Table I
  2005-06 WCPSS Distribution by Race and Ethnicity (Number and Percent):
  1. Total Membership (120,504 Students)
  2. Annual Increase (6,436 Students), and
  3. Annual Growth - Comparison to 2004-05 (within a Race/Ethnicity)
• Table II
  Distribution of "New Faces" - 16,415 Students who entered the WCPSS for the first time in 2005, by Grade, by Race/Ethnicity
• Table III
  WCPSS Distribution of Students by Grade, by Race/Ethnicity,
  based on 2005-06 20th-Day Enrollment Data

Wake County Demographics - Growth and Diversity, May 5, 2005

• The face of North Carolina is changing and Wake County is no exception. It is becoming more urban, more prosperous, and more racially, ethnically and socio-economically diverse. This change brings a number of challenges, but also .....

• WCPSS is using generation rates (multipliers) as published in the article: "Estimating the Size of Households and Number of School-Aged Children in New Development: Applications for Forecasting and Impact Analysis.", by Emil Malizia, Carolina Planning, Vol. 22, 1997......