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Schools in Cary are part of the Wake County Public School System. The system includes schools on traditional and year-round calendars.

Although schools are not a Town government responsibility in North Carolina, Cary leaders have responded to public interest in schools by making education a priority. Half of Cary adults have school-age children.

The Town appropriated more than $8 million to benefit schools with Cary students during the 2000-2001 through 2002-2003 school years. The schools funding project was the first such economic development through education initiative in the state.

The first public high school in North Carolina began as a prestigious boarding school in Cary during the late 1800s. Today, two-thirds of adults in Cary have a college degree. Three major universities - N.C. State University in Raleigh, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University in Durham - are less than 25 miles away.