Summary:
Southern Wake Academy is the sole public charter high school serving grades 6-12 in the Southern Wake Academy district, which is ranked 160 out of 242 districts in North Carolina and has a 2-star rating. The school has seen its statewide ranking decline in recent years, going from 422 out of 626 high schools in 2022-2023 to 481 out of 641 in 2024-2025, with a 1-star rating.
Southern Wake Academy has an enrollment of 553 students and a student-teacher ratio of 12.5 to 1 in 2023-2024. The school's graduation rate of 87.7% in 2024-2025 is slightly below the state average. In most subject areas and grade levels, the school's proficiency rates are below the state averages, sometimes significantly so, such as in 6th grade math (37.9% vs. 57.2%) and Biology (30.5% vs. 48.3%). However, the school does outperform the state average in 8th grade reading (62.4% vs. 54.2%) and 8th grade science (62% vs. 60.1%).
Overall, the data indicates that Southern Wake Academy is an underperforming school that may need to implement targeted interventions and strategies to improve student outcomes and competitiveness with other high schools in the state. The lack of data on free/reduced lunch recipients makes it difficult to assess the school's socioeconomic demographics and how that may be impacting performance, but the declining statewide ranking and 1-star rating suggest the school is not performing as well as other high schools in North Carolina.
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