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As the fourth largest school system in North Carolina, may also earn college credit through the International
Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools (WSFCS) provide Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, dual enrollment at
a quality education for around 55,000 students in 80 Forsyth Technical Community College, or through other
schools. Programs exist to serve a diverse array of students, local colleges and universities. The school system has
including a new food truck that provides meals for students increased the graduation rate to 86.5 percent, the highest
with food insecurities during the summer months when rate since the state began calculating it in 2006. Schools in
school is not in session. the district receiving national recognition include the Early
College of Forsyth County, as one of America’s top high
The Board of Education o ers the “Schools of Choice” schools by Newsweek, and R.J. Reynolds High School,
process, giving parents options on choosing schools.
Elementary schools are divided into 11 zones, and middle named as a Nationally Certi ed Magnet School.
schools are divided into seven zones. Parents may choose In addition to public schools, parents have the option of
from their neighborhood school, another school within their sending their children to numerous private schools in the
zone, or from 20 magnet schools. The system is equipped to Winston-Salem area, both secular and church-a liated.
o er programs and services for students throughout the Options include private schools that o er programs from
educational spectrum and with various needs. kindergarten through 12th grade, while others focus on lower
grade levels. There are also a number of charter schools in
High school students have the option to take classes at the
standard, honors and Advanced Placement levels. They the area from which parents may choose.

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY

HIGHER EDUCATION

Winston-Salem has a diverse array of colleges and universities. enhance residential, academic and athletic spaces for
students, including the $60 million transformation of its
Wake Forest University (WFU) is a private university with a historic Reynolds Gym into a state-of-the-art Wake Forest
liberal arts curriculum. Enrollment consists of approximately
5,000 undergraduates and 3,000 graduate and professional Wellbeing Center.
students. Consisting of three campuses, Wake’s “main” 345-acre For more than 20 years, U.S. News & World Report has ranked
Reynolda Campus is home to most of its undergraduate the university in the top 30 of its annual “Best Colleges”
programs, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the guide. Its Schools of Law and Business consistently rank
School of Business, the School of Law and the School of among the nation’s best graduate schools in the country.
Divinity. Classrooms and laboratories of the esteemed WFU has been listed on The Princeton Review’s list of “Best
Wake Forest School of Medicine are divided between the Value Colleges,” and its undergraduate business program
Wake Forest Baptist Health medical complex, located just has been listed among the top 20 “Best Undergraduate
west of downtown, and Wake Forest Innovation Quarter. Business Schools” by Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
Wake Downtown, a transformed former tobacco company WFU’s “Demon Deacons” compete in Division I athletics of
building, houses new undergraduate biomedical science the NCAA. Wake has won eight national titles in sports such
and engineering programs. Wake’s athletic facilities include as eld hockey, baseball, men’s golf, and men’s soccer. The
BB&T Field, David F. Couch Ballpark, Kentner Stadium, Wake Deacons have played in the Orange Bowl as well as in
Forest Tennis Center, Spry Soccer Stadium, and Lawrence numerous Atlantic Coast Conference title games. Its athletes
Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The University is in the excel in the classroom as well, with a 94 percent student-
midst of a 10-year, $625 million construction e ort to
athlete graduation rate.

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