Wake Preparatory Academy

A public school district in Wake Forest, North Carolina, with 1 operational school in 2024–25.

The district in 2024–25

2,617
Students enrolled: 121.7
Teachers, full-time equivalent: Derived by NCES from the state’s counts.; Suppressed by NCES
All staff, full-time equivalent: $9,113
Spending per pupil, fiscal year 2023: Current expenditure over fall membership, both as the district reported them.

How this compares

Students enrolled: 2,617 in 2024–⁠25: Ranks 3,688th of 17,800 districts by enrollment, and 89th of 334 in North Carolina. Larger than 79% of the 17,800 districts in the fifty states and DC that report an enrollment. The ranking →
Current spending per pupil: $9,113 in fiscal year 2023: More than 2% 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 Preparatory Academy spent $11,008 per pupil in fiscal year 2024, against $9,113 in fiscal year 2023

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.

Source: The College Scorecard

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The figures

Wake Preparatory Academy spent $11,008 per pupil in fiscal year 2024, against $9,113 in fiscal year 2023. 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
FY2024	$11,008	$24.3 million	2,203
FY2023	$9,113	$17.9 million	1,961
FY2022	not reported	not reported	not reported

Revenue by source, fiscal year 2023

Revenue to Wake Preparatory Academy by source, fiscal year 2023, as the district reported it to NCES
Source	Revenue	Share of total
Federal	$603.0 thousand	3.3%
State	$11.6 million	63.9%
Local	$5.9 million	32.7%
Total	$18.1 million

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

1 operational school, A to Z.

2 more columns on a wider screen

Schools in Wake Preparatory Academy
School	City	Level	Students
Wake Preparatory Academy	Wake Forest	Other	2,617

The district’s entry

Status: Open
Type: Independent charter district
Charter status: LEA for IDEA
Grades: Kindergarten to Grade 12
NCES district ID: 3700484

Elsewhere

Public schools in North Carolina — enrollment, teachers and spending across the state, against the nation.
Every school district in North Carolina — A to Z, each with its page.
North Carolina on the American Factbook — the state’s entry, across every hub.

Sources

Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25 — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 30, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25.
School District Finance Survey (F-33), fiscal years 2022 to 2024
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "School District Finance Survey (F-33)," fiscal years 2022 to 2024.

Compiled automatically from Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25 and School District Finance Survey (F-33), fiscal years 2022 to 2024 by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved September 30, 2026