Campus for joint Wake middle school and high school delayed. Here’s when it will open.
The opening of a new middle school in western Wake County will be delayed by at least a year.
Wake County had planned to open for the 2025-26 school year a joint campus in Morrisville that will be shared by the new Parkside Middle School and the existing Wake Early College of Information and Biotechnologies.
But due to delays with the design effort, Parkside Middle is now scheduled to open for the 2026-27 school year. No students have been proposed yet for reassignment to the school.
The part of the campus that will be used students from the Wake Early College of Information and Biotechnologies. won’t be ready for the start of the 2025-26 school year either. It’s projected to be ready some point during that first semester of that school year.
School board members were briefed about the delay on Tuesday.
Joint campus for two schools
Wake plans to build a 2,200-student campus at the intersection of Davis and Little drives in Morrisville near Wake Technical Community College’s RTP Campus. The location is also right by Parkside Elementary School.
The Wake Early College of Information and Biotechnologies opened in 2022 on Wake Tech’s RTP Campus in a partnership between the college and the school system. The specialized high school allows students to graduate with a high school diploma and up to two years of college credit.
The school district plans to use part of Parkside Middle’s campus to expand the number of students who can go to the early college Students would go to the RTP campus for their college courses.
This story was originally published October 11, 2023 at 12:02 PM.
