New N.C. High School Athletic Association realignment starts next fall, and here are the names of the leagues that all Triangle-area schools will be playing under for the next four years.
4A classification
| PAC-6 | Cap-8 | Greater Neuse River | Southwest Wake Athletic |
| East Chapel Hill | Broughton | Clayton | Apex |
| Hillside | Heritage | East Wake | Athens Drive |
| Jordan | Enloe | Garner | Cary |
| Northern Durham | Leesville Road | Harnett Central | Fuquay-Varina |
| Person | Millbrook | Knightdale | Green Hope |
| Riverside | Sanderson | Rolesville (new) | Holly Springs |
| Wake Forest | SE Raleigh | Middle Creek | |
| Wakefield | West Johnston | Panther Creek |
Overview: The Tri-9 changes its name while dropping a team. These four leagues drop three schools total, but the GNRC adds Rolesville High, which will give East Wake and Knightdale some company in the upper east part of Wake County.
3A classification
| Big Eight | Cape Fear Valley | Two Rivers |
| Cardinal Gibbons | (Fayetteville) Douglas Byrd | Cleveland |
| Cedar Ridge | (Hope Mills) Gray's Creek | Corinth Holders |
| Chapel Hill | Lee County | Smithfield-Selma |
| Northern Vance | Southern Lee | South Johnston |
| Northwood | (Fayetteville) Terry Sanford | Triton |
| Orange | (Cameron) Union Pines | Western Harnett |
| Southern Durham | (Fayetteville) Westover | |
| (Oxford) Webb |
Overview: The Lee County schools are sectioned with more Sandhills-area schools. The old Eastern Carolina becomes only a Harnett-and-Johnston County league with Western Harnett, Corinth Holders and Cleveland being added to the mix. The Big Eight is a good, general name for a league that stretches from Henderson to Pittsboro.
2A classification
| Mid-State | Northern Carolina | Eastern Plains |
| Bartlett Yancey | Bunn | (Wilson) Beddingfield |
| Carrboro | Durham School of the Arts | Farmville Central |
| (Burlington) Cummings | Franklinton | North Johnston |
| Graham | N.C. Science & Math | North Pitt |
| Jordan-Matthews | Roanoke Rapids | Southwest Edgecombe |
| Reidsville | South Granville | Washington |
| Southern Vance | ||
| Warren County |
Overview: Carrboro goes west for its new out-of-the-Triangle conference foes, while North Johnston does the same to the east. The Northern Carolina went through a lot of changes and now comes all the way west to Durham.
1A classification
| North Central Athletic | Tar Roanoke Athletic | Carolina |
| East Wake Academy | Granville Central | Hobbton |
| Franklin Academy | (Gaston) KIPP Pride | (Warsaw) James Kenan |
| (Durham) Kestrel Heights | Louisburg | (Salemburg) Lakewood |
| Raleigh Charter | Northwest Halifax | (Smithfield) Neuse Charter |
| (Graham) River Mill | Southeast Halifax | North Duplin |
| Roxboro Community | Weldon | Princeton |
| (Durham) Voyager Academy | Rosewood | |
| (Chapel Hill) Woods Charter | (Seven Springs) Spring Creek |
Overview: The new all-Triangle charter school conference has a unique name, the NCAC. Princeton gets a Johnston County school (Neuse Charter) it the new-look Carolina 1A Conference. Louisburg and Granville Central, formerly 2A schools, will be playing mostly out-of-the-Triangle schools.
