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Wake County Schools

North Carolina · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 3704720 · wcpss.net · (919) 431-7400

Wake County Schools spreads across 41 ZIP Code areas — enough that no single postal code describes it. It is the only district in 20 of them and shares 18 more; in the remaining 3 it holds under half a percent of the homes. In total it covers 462,582 homes over 835 square miles.

A district wide enough to cross many ZIP Codes

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Wake County Schools, grouped by the ZIP Code area each block falls in. The Census Bureau publishes the blocks; the grouping is computed here, and it is the only place these particular numbers exist.

  • Homes inside the boundary462,582
  • Residents1,129,410
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches41
  • Where it is the only district20
  • Where it shares with another district18
  • Where it holds under half a percent3
  • Land area835 square miles
  • Homes per square mile554

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 27616 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 27697 it holds no homes at all. Same district, opposite answers, and a lookup that names it without the share tells the second household the same thing as the first.

  • ZIP Code 27616 · Raleigh, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27606 · Raleigh, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27612 · Raleigh, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27604 · Raleigh, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27513 · Cary, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27615 · Raleigh, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27609 · Raleigh, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27614 · Raleigh, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27511 · Cary, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27545 · Knightdale, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27607 · Raleigh, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27518 · Cary, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27539 · Apex, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27608 · Raleigh, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27601 · Raleigh, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27605 · Raleigh, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27571 · Rolesville, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27695 · Raleigh, North Carolina22 of 22 homes
  • ZIP Code 27610 · Raleigh, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27502 · Apex, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27603 · Raleigh, North Carolina98% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27613 · Raleigh, North Carolina98% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27617 · Raleigh, North Carolina97% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27540 · Holly Springs, North Carolina97% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27587 · Wake Forest, North Carolina92% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27519 · Cary, North Carolina92% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27523 · Apex, North Carolina85% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27526 · Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina83% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27591 · Wendell, North Carolina82% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27560 · Morrisville, North Carolina79% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27562 · Apex, North Carolina69% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27529 · Garner, North Carolina69% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27592 · Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina57% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27597 · Zebulon, North Carolina56% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27596 · Youngsville, North Carolina4.1% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27522 · Butner, North Carolina3.5% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27501 · Angier, North Carolina2.8% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27520 · Clayton, North Carolina2.0% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27703 · Durham, North Carolina125 homes, under half a percent
  • ZIP Code 27713 · Durham, North Carolina8 homes, under half a percent
  • ZIP Code 27697 · Raleigh, North Carolinano homes at all

What an answer of one district name misses here

Wake County Schools is the largest district in 34 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 30,919 of the 492,274 homes those areas hold — though in 18 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

ZIP Code 27529 · Garner, North Carolina is a two-district area: 15,252 of its 22,025 homes are inside Wake County Schools, and the other 6,773 homes are with Johnston County Schools. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

Wake County Schools is one of 4 districts the file names for ZIP Code 27597 · Zebulon, North Carolina at that level. It holds 6,092 of the 10,789 homes there; the rest is 4,697 homes with Franklin County Schools, Johnston County Schools and Nash-Rocky Mount Schools. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 4,697 of the homes in it.

In ZIP Code 27526 · Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina the split runs 17,940 to 3,801 and the larger part is Wake County Schools': the rest is 3,801 homes with Harnett County Schools.

Wake County Schools holds 3,730 of the 6,590 homes in ZIP Code 27592 · Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 2,860 homes with Johnston County Schools and Harnett County Schools.

In ZIP Code 27587 · Wake Forest, North Carolina the split runs 26,454 to 2,197 and the larger part is Wake County Schools': the rest is 2,197 homes with Granville County Schools and Franklin County Schools.

Wake County Schools is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 27520 · Clayton, North Carolina — Johnston County Schools leads it — and Wake County Schools holds 355 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 27596 · Youngsville, North Carolina is another area where Wake County Schools is present without being the answer: 313 of its 7,573 homes, behind Franklin County Schools.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Wake County Schools runs pre-K through grade 12 itself, so an address it holds sees no change of authority between grade school and high school. The districts listed below are the ones that take the other homes in the ZIP Code areas it shares — Durham, Johnston County Schools and Franklin County Schools. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Durham Public Schools55,416 homes in 5 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Johnston County Schools34,220 homes in 7 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Franklin County Schools10,218 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Harnett County Schools9,555 homes in 5 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Granville County Schools7,061 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Chatham County Schools3,743 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Wake County Schools shares ZIP Code areas with 7 different districts. The most frequent are Johnston County Schools, Harnett County Schools, Chatham County Schools and Durham. In a neighborhood this crowded the question is not which district serves the ZIP Code but which side of which street an address is on.

  • Johnston County Schools7 shared ZIP areas
  • Harnett County Schools5 shared ZIP areas
  • Chatham County Schools3 shared ZIP areas
  • Durham Public Schools3 shared ZIP areas
  • Franklin County Schools3 shared ZIP areas
  • Granville County Schools3 shared ZIP areas

Wake County Schools and Johnston County Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 27501 · Angier, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27520 · Clayton, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27529 · Garner, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27591 · Wendell, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27592 · Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27597 · Zebulon, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27603 · Raleigh, North Carolina

Wake County Schools and Harnett County Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 27501 · Angier, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27526 · Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27540 · Holly Springs, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27562 · Apex, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27592 · Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina

Wake County Schools and Chatham County Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 27519 · Cary, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27523 · Apex, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27562 · Apex, North Carolina

Have a street address?

A ZIP Code names every district that can serve the area; a street address settles which one serves a home. The Census Bureau geocoder takes an exact address and returns its school districts from the current boundary files, free and with no account.

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Where this district sits

What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address: look on its site for a school locator, a find my school tool or an attendance zone map, or call the office.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: in 18 of the 41 ZIP Code areas Wake County Schools reaches, at least one other district holds a real share of the homes as well, and the line between them runs along streets. Only the district can say which side of that line an address is on.

District websites and phone numbers here come from the NCES Common Core of Data directory, 2024-25 school year, filed under the same district ID as the Census boundary files. Where it lists no usable website, none is printed rather than guessed.

If a house purchase depends on the answer, ask the district itself for written confirmation of that exact address. A listing is not a district record, and neither is this page.

Where these numbers come from

The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file, so a fast-growing area may have changed since; ZIP Codes here are the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; a share is a share of homes, not the chance that one address is in a district; and a district is not a school attendance zone. Every source, file and caveat is on the method page.