Wakefield High

Wakefield High is a public high school in Wake County Schools, in the Raleigh-Durham area, serving grades 9-12, with 2,072 students enrolled, and 35% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch (NCES ID 370472002560, NCES CCD 2022-23). It sits in the K-12 pipeline for Falls River / North Raleigh — 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. Wakefield 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?”

Raleigh-Durham neighborhoods that feed into Wakefield High

Wakefield 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.

• Falls River / North Raleigh

Other Raleigh-Durham schools in Wake County Schools or at the same level

• Elementary · same district
  Holly Springs Elementary

  Grades PK-5 · 907 students

• Elementary · same district
  Holly Ridge Elementary

  Grades PK-5 · 791 students

• Middle · same district
  Holly Ridge Middle

  Grades 6-8 · 994 students

• High · same district
  Holly Springs High

  Grades 9-12 · 2,140 students

• Elementary · same district
  Holly Grove Elementary

  Grades PK-5 · 907 students

• Middle · same district
  Holly Grove Middle

  Grades 6-8 · 935 students

Wakefield High family questions

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

• NCES CCD school detail · 370472002560
• NCES Common Core directory