Options for Providing Classroom Seats

Build new schools

Updated 3/24/06.
WCPSS currently has 139 schools.
Wake has opened 26 new schools since 2000.
Wake will open nine new schools in 2006-07 and three new schools in 2007-08.
New schools opening in 2006-07: Holly Springs High,

Looking Beyond the Typical Solutions to Provide Classroom Seats

Panther Creek High, Barwell Road Elementary, Brier Creek Elementary, Carpenter Elementary, and two early-start schools: Holly Grove Elementary and River Bend Elementary. Two additional high schools - an Early College of Health and Sciences and the East Wake School of Integrated Technology - will also open next year.

WCPSS currently has more than 1,000 mobile/modular classrooms.
Today, 17% of students systemwide and 24% of elementary students are in temporary classrooms.
WCPSS is adding at least 100 more classrooms next school year.

Carpenter Elementary served as a ninth-grade center for Green Hope High in 2004-05 and 2005-06.
East Cary Middle has served as a ninth-grade center for Cary High since 2004-05.

WCPSS opened three schools one and two years early at temporary modular campuses for the first time this year.
Next year, E19 (planning name) students and staff will start two years early at the modular campus at Spring Forest Road.

In 1997, WCPSS purchased the former office and manufacturing facility for American Sterilizer Company and renovated it for Lufkin Road Middle School.

Schools on the multi-track year-round calendar can house 20-30% more students than those on the traditional calendar because three of four groups of students are in session and one group is on break at any given time.
WCPSS has 15 year-round schools and is opening five elementary schools on the year-round calendar next year.

As long as there is growth, there will be a need to build new schools. And, when schools are built, they will need to be filled. Growth=New Schools=Reassignment