Long-Range Planning
Advances in Long-Range Planning
In fall 2004, the Wake County Public School System contracted with N.C. State University’s Operations Research and Education Laboratory to create an analytical, data-driven process that incorporates land use and future developments into determining the best locations for new schools. This will be a continuous long-range school and community planning process involving WCPSS, Wake County government, the 12 municipalities, and the Capital Area Municipal Planning Organization, with the Lab coordinating updates. The new method improves upon the current system by incorporating municipal planning data and projections into school and infrastructure planning, adding GIS technology and operations research methodologies, and projecting school sites beyond a three- or four-year bond cycle. Finish reading this article.
Go to the Long-Range School Planning Data site.
Capital Program Planning Issues
The Wake County Board of Education and the Board of County Commissioners jointly developed planning principles for the school system's long-range capital building program. These planning principals, approved September 21, 2005, will be used over the next two decades to construct new schools to accommodate the growing student enrollment, and to ensure that existing schools are safe, quality places for students to learn.
Capital Program Planning Issues Addendum
This addendum reflects the 2007-09 Capital Improvement Program's achievement status of the above planning issues, as adopted by the Board of Education on May 16, 2006.
2006-2012 New Schools
A listing of new schools opening by level, by year from 2006-07 to 2012-13, as well as crowding accommodations for PLAN 2004 and the 2007-09 Capital Improvement Program.
New School Maps
Maps of new school locations and crowding solutions for the remainder of the current PLAN 2004 building program and the new 2007-09 Capital Improvement Program.