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Apex High

Apex High is a high school in Wake County Schools, serving the Raleigh-Durham area (grades 9-12) with 2,500 students enrolled. Data sourced from NCES Common Core of Data.

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Level

High

Grades

9-12

Enrollment

2,500

Free/reduced lunch

20%

District

Wake County Schools

Charter / magnet

Public, zoned

NCES ID

370472001829

ZIP

27502

The short answer

Apex High is a public high school in Wake County Schools, in the Raleigh-Durham area, serving grades 9-12, with 2,500 students enrolled, and 20% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch (NCES ID 370472001829, NCES CCD 2022-23). It sits in the K-12 pipeline for Apex (Friendship area) — the Raleigh-Durham neighborhoods a family would buy into for this school.

For families, the school itself is only half the question — the other half is what it costs to live in its attendance zone. Apex High is part of Wake County Schools, and the neighborhoods that feed it carry their own home prices, commute realities, and sold-comp history. Use the links below to move from “is this a good school?” to “can we afford to buy into it, and is the whole K-12 pipeline strong?”

Neighborhood pipeline

Raleigh-Durham neighborhoods that feed into Apex High

Apex High appears in the K-12 pipeline for 1 neighborhood in our Raleigh-Durham family home-search guide. Each neighborhood page covers school pipelines, sold comps, commute reality, and family-fit verdicts.

Frequently asked

Apex High family questions

What grades does Apex High serve?

Apex High is high school covering grades 9-12 in Wake County Schools, Raleigh-Durham. Enrollment is 2,500 students per the most recent NCES Common Core of Data.

What's the free/reduced-lunch rate at Apex High?

20% of students at Apex High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch per the NCES CCD 2022-23 dataset. This is one of the most-cited indicators of student-body economic mix.

Which Raleigh-Durham neighborhoods feed into Apex High?

Apex High appears in the K-12 pipeline for Apex (Friendship area) in our Raleigh-Durham family home-search guide.

Federal data sources

School data on this page is sourced from NCES CCD 2022-23 (US Department of Education / National Center for Education Statistics). Verify directly: