Wake Forest-Rolesville High School

Wake Forest-Rolesville High School, is a high school located in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

The school year at WF-R High School starts in late August and ends in early June. The class schedule, commonly referred to as "block scheduling", has students take four different classes each semester, each period being approximately ninety minutes long. This completes a course in one semester instead of one year and having four new classes in the second semester. Five minutes are given in between classes with a forty minute lunch period. Students take exams in mid January and again in early June.

WF-R High School offers numerous Advanced Placement(AP) courses. Some students are placed on A/B scheduling, in which they have classes for an entire year with alternating days. Most cases of A/B scheduling only causes one period of alternating classes, with a normal remainder of the day. The most common case is having both AP United States History and AP English III at the same time. Students with these two classes would go to AP US History one day, then the next go to AP English III for an entire year instead of one semester.

WF-R's students compete in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association 4A classification in the CAP 7 conference (through 2009). WF-R's biggest rivalry in sports is with the cross-town Wakefield Wolverines.

WF-R currently has the following sports programs -

Fall Sports - Cross Country, Men's Soccer, Football, Women's Golf, Women's Tennis, and Women's Volleyball

Winter Sports - Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball, Cheerleading, Women's Gymnastics, Indoor Track, Swimming, Wrestling, and Diving

Spring Sports - Baseball, Men's Golf, Men's and Women's Lacrosse, Men's Tennis, Track, Women's Soccer, and Softball

Theatre and Music

In 2007, the marching band directed by Shannon Norman performed "Ghost Train" composed by Eric Whitacre. The band placed first at most of their regional performances that season. The marching band has around 110 members and they are known as the "Marching Cougars".

The theatre department is led by Marie Jones and Allison Edine. The department has won many awards including Best Ensemble, Best Actress, Honorable Mention Actor (by the North Caorlin Theatre Confrence), and was nominated for a North Carolina Theatre Capital Award. The department will be performing "A Night of O'Henry", "The Match Maker", and "Batboy" for the 2008/2009 school year.