A public school district in Cary, North Carolina, with 198 operational schools in 2024–25.
The district in 2024–25
163,325
Students enrolled
10,648.6
Teachers, full-time equivalent
Derived by NCES from the state’s counts.
Suppressed by NCES
All staff, full-time equivalent
$11,691
Spending per pupil, fiscal year 2023
Current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them.
How this compares
Students enrolled: 163,325 in 2024–25
Ranks 14th of 17,800 districts by enrollment, and 1st of 334 in North Carolina. Larger than 99% of the 17,800 districts in the fifty states and DC that report an enrollment. The ranking →
Current spending per pupil: $11,691 in fiscal year 2023
More than 14% of the 17,189 districts with a spending figure. Current spending leaves out buildings and debt, and a district of a few pupils can spend far more per pupil than any large one.
Spending and revenue
Wake County Schools spent $11,691 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $7,181 in fiscal year 2005
Current spending per pupil, each fiscal year: current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them to NCES. In the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. A year with no column is a year the survey has no figure for.
U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics — School District Finance Survey (F-33), fiscal year 2005 onwards
The figures behind this chart
Wake County Schools spent $11,691 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $7,181 in fiscal year 2005. Current spending per pupil, each fiscal year: current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them to NCES. In the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. A year with no column is a year the survey has no figure for.
Fiscal year
Spending per pupil
Current expenditure
Membership
FY2023
$11,691
$1.9 billion
159,778
FY2022
$11,859
$1.9 billion
160,099
FY2021
$9,899
$1.6 billion
159,802
FY2020
$9,610
$1.6 billion
163,404
FY2019
$9,395
$1.5 billion
161,784
FY2018
$8,897
$1.4 billion
161,417
FY2017
$8,597
$1.4 billion
160,467
FY2016
$8,449
$1.3 billion
157,839
FY2015
$8,205
$1.3 billion
155,820
FY2014
$7,810
$1.2 billion
153,534
FY2013
$7,730
$1.2 billion
150,956
FY2012
$7,616
$1.1 billion
148,154
FY2011
$7,714
$1.1 billion
144,173
FY2010
$7,727
$1.1 billion
140,558
FY2009
$8,209
$1.1 billion
138,443
FY2008
$7,780
$1.0 billion
133,649
FY2007
$7,728
$990.1 million
128,122
FY2006
$7,333
$883.7 million
120,504
FY2005
$7,181
$819.1 million
114,068
Revenue by source, fiscal year 2023
Revenue to Wake County Schools by source, fiscal year 2023, as the district reported it to NCES
Source
Revenue
Share of total
Federal
$211.2 million
10.8%
State
$1.1 billion
56.5%
Local
$643.4 million
32.8%
Total
$2.0 billion
Federal, state and local revenue as the F-33 records them. Each share is of the survey’s total revenue, so a part withheld does not inflate the others.
The district’s schools
198 operational schools, A to Z, 100 to a page: page 1 of 2.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "School District Finance Survey (F-33)," fiscal years 2005 to 2023.