High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12

Heritage High, Wake Forest, NC

Heritage High is a public high school in Wake Forest, part of Wake County Schools. It enrolled 1,778 students in 2024-25, with 18.3 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 1,778
Teachers (FTE): 97.0
Students per teacher: 18.3
Grades: 9 to 12

This school's ratio is 3.0 higher than the district figure of 15.3. The North Carolina average across schools is 16.3. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school18.3

District15.3

North Carolina16.3

United States15.3

School details

Address: 1150 Forestville Road, Wake Forest, NC 27587
Phone: (919)570-5600
District: Wake County Schools
County: Wake County
Level: High
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Suburb: Large
NCES school ID: 370472003226

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 454
Reduced-price lunch: 39
Free or reduced-price lunch: 49327.7% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other high schools in Wake County Schools

Apex Friendship High 2,748 students
Enloe High 2,643 students
Panther Creek High 2,609 students
Millbrook High 2,498 students
Apex High 2,449 students
Leesville Road High 2,411 students
Rolesville High 2,321 students
Green Hope High 2,304 students
Green Level High 2,283 students
Willow Spring High 2,223 students
Athens Drive High 2,156 students
Needham Broughton High 2,153 students

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.