The Wake County school board appointed four principals on Tuesday.

Ritchie (Malik) Bazzell was named principal of the East Wake School of Integrated Technology in Wendell, with a salary of $82,565. The former Wake County teacher an assistant principal has been principal of the Anacostia High School Turnaround Project in Washington D.C. since 2009.

Dell Edwards was named principal of West Lake Middle School in Apex, with a salary of $104,438. He has been an assistant principal at Lufkin Road Middle School since 2005.

School officials have confirmed that a student at Laurel Park Elementary School in Apex has been diagnosed with the H1N1 virus.

A note was sent home today to Laurel Park families. The school will be disinfected tonight and is set to open as normal on Friday.

This comes after it was confirmed Wednesday that a student from Reedy Creek Middle School in Cary had contracted the virus.

The numbers crunchers will be interested in the school-by-school look at the magnet/calendar applicants.

For instance, Brentwood Elementary School drew 261 applicants to the new engineering magnet theme that will start in August. There were questions how well it would draw in its first year.

"Brentwood did a fabulous job of going out there and selling the program," said Laura Evans, a senior director in Growth and Planning.