The number of people relocating to the Wake County area who ask about our schools is astonishingly large. Every day, it seems, I get asked questions: "How are the schools?", "Which are the better schools?", "Are they building more schools?" and so on.

I attempt to answer each question individually, but the requests have become so large, that I decided to put together a list of links to help you learn more about our schools in Wake County. Remember, Wake County includes popular cities like Apex, Cary, Holly Springs, Fuquay Varina, Raleigh, Wake Forest, Knightdale, Wendell and Zebulon.

• First, start at the Wake County Public Schools System main website: http://www.wcpss.net/
• If you want to know which schools you will be assigned to, based upon your address: http://wwwgis2.wcpss.net/cgi-bin/Production/MainScript.pl?MainOption=StreetMain
• Wake Co School Report Cards (2005-2006) great stats!: http://www.ncreportcards.org/src/search.jsp?pYear=2005-2006&pList=1&pListVal=920%3AWake+County+Schools&GO2=GO
• Newcomer Resource Center: http://www.wcpss.net/newcomer/getting-started/
• For information on year-round schools in Wake Co: http://www.wcpss.net/year-round/
• Wake County public schools system demographics: http://www.wcpss.net/demographics/
• For a list of Wake Co schools and their ratings: http://www.greatschools.net/schools.page?district=171&state=NC
• Wake County Charter Schools: http://www.wakegov.com/schools/charterschools.htm
• Another Wake Co public school directory: http://www.wcpss.net/school-directory/
• Wake County private schools: http://www.privateschoolreview.com/county_private_schools/stateid/NC/county/37183
• Wake County magnet schools: http://www.wcpss.net/magnet/
• Meredith College: http://www.meredith.edu/
• NC State University: http://www.ncsu.edu/
• Peace College: http://www.peace.edu/index-flash.htm
• Shaw University: http://www.shawuniversity.edu/
• St Augustine's College: http://www.st-aug.edu/
• Wake Tech Community College: http://www.waketech.edu/
• NC Character Education Partnership: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/nccep/wake_county/index.html

Of course, there is much more information available out there. If you have any questions on the state of NC schools, feel free to contact me.