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The following reports summarize demographic developments and trends in the Wake County Public School System for the past several years.

 
 

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  Satellite Photos and Street View Images of Schools, April 4, 2008  
 
  • See satellite photos and street-level pictures (when available) of your school. You can view and navigate within street-level imagery.
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  People on the Move: Implications for K-12 Education, April 4, 2008  
 
  • Overview:

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

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  WCPSS School Statistics and Maps, 2007-08, December 18, 2007 pdf (150 pages, 10,255 KB)
  printable sections
  Long-Range School Plan, 2005-2025, October 3, 2006  
 
  • 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 almost two years of collaborative effort between......

Students Leaving and Entering WCPSS In 2005-06, March 15, 2006

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  • A comparison of enrollment in September 2005 with September 2006 shows a net one-year growth of 6,436 students for the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS). An analysis of student entry and exit coding shows that a large majority came from.....

 

 
  • 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

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

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  • 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 .....

Distance Analysis, December 6, 2003  
  • Growth of the WCPSS requires student assignment policies designed to accommodate new schools and utilization of existing facilities, while maintaining a healthy academic environment. An analysis of how far the students live from the school they attend is...
Methodology for Estimating Average School-Age Children per Residential Unit  
  • 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......
   


 
 
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