It actually turns out that the Wake County Public School System is now the 16th-largest school district in the nation..

I didn't factor in that Wake's 146,687 students had also moved it ahead of the falling enrollment this year in the School District of Philadelphia. I had previously blogged about how Wake had moved ahead of Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, which has 146,497 students this year.

In the case of Philadelphia, Wake's national ranking changed because the Pennsylvania school district is losing students at a fast rate. This year, Philadelphia has 146,090 students. The district had 154,482 students in the 2010-11 school year.