Olive Chapel Elementary

Olive Chapel Elementary is a Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) base (neighborhood) school, so families start by confirming their assigned base school using WCPSS’s address-based assignment lookup and then pre-enrolling through the district’s enrollment portal; Olive Chapel is listed as a capped school (cap date: October 3, 2017), but you still begin enrollment with your base school. (osageo.wcpss.net) Key dates for the 2026–27 cycle include base-school kindergarten/pre-registration opening October 15, 2025, and the transfer application window running March 2–13, 2026; for capped schools, certain eligible families (including rising kindergarteners who lived in the base area before the cap date) must pre-enroll before March 1 to avoid being sent to an overflow school. (wcpss.net) Requirements highlighted for capped-school enrollment include proving current residency/domicile (you must already be living in the home when enrolling, using items like current utility bills, closing papers, or a lease—offers to buy/leases showing you are not yet living there are not accepted) and meeting state health rules (a health assessment within 12 months for students entering NC public schools for the first time and immunizations/records brought into compliance within 30 days of the first day of attendance). (wcpss.net) If Olive Chapel is full, WCPSS routes enrollment to an overflow school and places the student on the Olive Chapel waitlist; students must already be enrolled in WCPSS to be added to the waitlist, and they are removed if they leave WCPSS or move out of the base area, with seat offers typically made at the end of the 2nd quarter (mid-year call) or before the new school year (summer call, where declining can remove the student from the waitlist). (wcpss.net) Priority/eligibility categories described for attending a capped school include (1) rising kindergarten (and rising 6th/9th) students who lived in the base area before the cap date and pre-enroll by March 1, and (2) children of full-time WCPSS employees who work at the capped school. (wcpss.net)