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Magnet schools celebrate 40 years in Wake County 🎒

How Wake County’s magnet schools create well-rounded students
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Two students work on a robotics project
Magnet students engaged in learning during a robotics elective. | Photo provided by Paul Cory, WCPSS Communications
Looking for innovative programs to meet the unique strengths and interests of your child? Enter: Wake County’s magnet schools + pioneering programs, which are designed to challenge students to think creatively and solve problems while being exposed to new experiences.

Nationally, 3.5+ million students participate in free magnet programs in ~4,340 schools — including some right here in our backyard. Since 1982, magnet schools in Wake County have been offering families dynamic educational choices. Today, they host over 30 different programs in 56 schools and have been awarded Merit Awards 365+ times by Magnet Schools of America.

What sets magnet programs apart from traditional schools? Let’s explore the five different magnet pathways offered locally:

🧪 STEM

Schools in this pathway help enrich learning by enhancing the North Carolina Standard Course of Study connections to science, technology, engineering, math thinking, and future careers. This program focuses on everything from computer science and design to exploring innovation, entrepreneurship, and environmental connections.

🎨 Arts Plus

The schools in this pathway help students demonstrate their knowledge of a topic through a creative process. Arts Plus explores integrating arts and/or design into academic learning. Students in this pathway may visit a museum or attend a performance and learn about topics ranging from fabric design and dance to sculpture and theater.

🌎 Global Studies and Immersion

Four students of WCPSS Global Studies and Immersion schools standing in a row

Learn a language at one of the Global Studies and Immersion schools.

Photo provided by Paul Cory, WCPSS Communications

The Global Studies pathway provides students with opportunities to connect their learning to events, people, and areas around the globe. Students focus on developing a better understanding of the global competencies and enhancing their capacity to make global connections using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Bonus: Each program also focuses on world language study, with language acquisition choices ranging from daily world language offerings to dual language immersion programs for Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.

🧠 Gifted and Talented

This pathway celebrates and supports the discovery and development of all students’ gifts and talents. Students customize their educational experience by selecting electives from a menu of course options in various subject areas, be it in academics, the visual or performing arts, or a world language.

Keep reading to learn about two more pathways and how to get your student enrolled at a magnet school.*
MORE MAGNET PROGRAMS
This content was created in partnership with Wake County Public School System and written by Rachel Taylor-Northam.*
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Feast your eyes on this new food hub 🍽️

Kane Realty announces new food and beverage hub in North Hills
A rendering of a new food and beverage concept — a big development in the North Hills district.
Guests will be able to dine by Big Branch Creek. | Photo provided by Kane Realty Corporation
Yesterday, Kane Realty Corporation revealed plans for a new food + beverage destination in the North Hills Innovation District.

The freestanding, 6,000-sqft building will have more outdoor seating than any other North Hills space — 15,000 sqft, to be exact.

The building will feature large windows + doors that will open to extensive covered seating and uncovered patio areas backing up to Big Branch Creek. Two wooden pedestrian bridges will be built over the creek to provide access to parking and adjacent ground-floor retail.

The food and beverage hub will be located between these previously announced — and under construction — buildings:
  • The Pumphouse: Retail space with an outdoor biergarten
  • Tower 5: 18-story office building with ground-level retail space
  • Channel House: 200-unit apartment building with ground-level shopping + dinning options
Construction of the newly-announced building will begin next summer and is expected to wrap up in summer 2024.
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