Holly Springs Elementary

Holly Springs Elementary is a Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) base school, so students are assigned based on home address and families start enrollment online through the WCPSS enrollment portal, then wait for the base school to contact them with next steps. To complete enrollment, families must provide key documents such as a certified birth certificate, proof of Wake County address (e.g., recent utility bill/lease/settlement statement, with specific timing rules), parent/legal custodian photo ID, immunization record, and any custody documents; North Carolina also requires a health assessment within 12 months of starting school and compliance with health/immunization requirements within 30 days of the first day of attendance. Key district dates for the 2026–27 cycle include Oct. 15, 2025 (kindergarten/pre-registration opens), Dec. 15–17, 2025 (initial school assignment notifications), and March 2–13, 2026 (transfer application window); magnet/year-round choice applications run Oct. 15, 2025–Jan. 22, 2026 with results on Feb. 19, 2026 and a Round 2 window March 2–13, 2026. If applying to magnet/year-round instead of (or in addition to) the base school, the student must be enrolled first (to get an active student ID), and families apply during the choice window; students who do not receive a seat may be placed on a non-numeric waitlist (“applicant pool”) that is reviewed in the spring to fill vacancies. If a base school is capped and full, WCPSS enrolls the student at an overflow school and adds them to a capped-school waitlist (with mid-year and summer call-backs and removal rules if the family declines or leaves/moves out of the base area), and capped-school eligibility/priority can include certain rising-grade students who lived in the base area before the cap date (and pre-enroll by March 1) and children of full-time WCPSS employees at the capped school. Selection priority categories for magnet seats include guaranteed sibling priority for certain grades and additional tiers (including socioeconomic-status-based priorities), with remaining seats filled by lottery after priority assignments.