For now, it looks like Judy Peppler will not be leaving her job as the Wake County school system's chief transformation officer.

The Reno Gazette-Journal is reporting that this morning the Washoe County school system's board of trustees named Pedro Martinez as the new superintendent. Peppler was one of five finalists for the job of running the 62,000-student district in Nevada.

The wild card here is that Martinez, the deputy superintendent of Clark County schools in Nevada, is also a finalist for superintendent of Philadelphia schools. Martinez faced scrutiny in Washoe after media reports had him saying he'd prefer the job with the much larger Philadelphia schools, which have 146,000 students.

During her interview on Wednesday, Peppler told the Washoe board of trustees that she considers herself to be a West Coast person and would like to return to that part of the country. Before attending the Broad Superintendents Academy and coming to Wake, Peppler was the state president of Qwest Communications in Oregon.

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.