3A is the largest meet this year. A big reason for this is the overall size of 3A grew this year due to the classification realignment with more schools moving up from 2A or down from 4A. The NCHSAA readjusts qualifying standards every two years, so this likely is the reason why this meet is 250 athletes larger than the other two meet. Of 860 total entries for the meet there are 446 boys entered, 414 girls entered. Entering 1 relay equals 1 entry by this metric.
NCHSAA 3A Entries by Team
| Weddington High School | 45 | 3A |
| Mount Tabor | 41 | 3A |
| Marvin Ridge | 40 | 3A |
| Cuthbertson High School | 34 | 3A |
| Hillside | 32 | 3A |
| Southwest Guilford | 31 | 3A |
| Chapel Hill | 30 | 3A |
| Parkland | 29 | 3A |
| Northern Guilford | 25 | 3A |
| White Oak | 22 | 3A |
| Asheville | 21 | 3A |
| West Carteret | 21 | 3A |
| Cleveland High School | 18 | 3A |
| Parkwood | 18 | 3A |
| Swansboro | 17 | 3A |
| South Brunswick | 16 | 3A |
| Union Pines | 15 | 3A |
| East Chapel Hill | 14 | 3A |
| Eastern Wayne | 14 | 3A |
| Jacksonville | 14 | 3A |
| Ashbrook | 13 | 3A |
| Dudley | 13 | 3A |
| West Henderson | 13 | 3A |
| A.C. Reynolds | 12 | 3A |
| North Brunswick | 12 | 3A |
| Southern Durham | 12 | 3A |
| T.C. Roberson | 12 | 3A |
| Alexander Central | 11 | 3A |
| Piedmont | 11 | 3A |
| Williams, Walter M | 11 | 3A |
| Southeast Guilford | 10 | 3A |
| Southern Guilford | 10 | 3A |
| Southern Lee | 10 | 3A |
| Watauga | 9 | 3A |
| Forestview | 8 | 3A |
| Franklinton | 8 | 3A |
| Rocky Mount | 8 | 3A |
| Smith, E.E. | 8 | 3A |
| Western Guilford | 8 | 3A |
| Aycock, Charles B | 7 | 3A |
| Northern Nash | 7 | 3A |
| Rose, J.H. | 7 | 3A |
| Kings Mountain | 6 | 3A |
| Monroe | 6 | 3A |
| North Henderson | 6 | 3A |
| Southern Wayne | 6 | 3A |
| St. Stephens | 6 | 3A |
| Douglas Byrd | 5 | 3A |
| Hunt High School | 5 | 3A |
| Jesse Carson | 5 | 3A |
| A.L. Brown | 4 | 3A |
| Clayton | 4 | 3A |
| Freedom | 4 | 3A |
| North Buncombe | 4 | 3A |
| Northwood | 4 | 3A |
| Orange | 4 | 3A |
| South Iredell | 4 | 3A |
| Sun Valley | 4 | 3A |
| Topsail | 4 | 3A |
| West Johnston | 4 | 3A |
| Burns | 3 | 3A |
| Cedar Ridge | 3 | 3A |
| East Rowan | 3 | 3A |
| Enka | 3 | 3A |
| Erwin, Clyde A. | 3 | 3A |
| Harnett Central | 3 | 3A |
| North Forsyth | 3 | 3A |
| North Iredell | 3 | 3A |
| Northside (2A) | 3 | 3A |
| Smith, Ben L | 3 | 3A |
| Cape Fear | 2 | 3A |
| Eastern Alamance | 2 | 3A |
| Eastern Guilford High School | 2 | 3A |
| Hunter Huss | 2 | 3A |
| Northern Durham | 2 | 3A |
| Smithfield-Selma | 2 | 3A |
| South Johnston | 2 | 3A |
| Triton | 2 | 3A |
| West Caldwell | 2 | 3A |
| West Rowan | 2 | 3A |
| Westover | 2 | 3A |
| Asheboro | 1 | 3A |
| North Gaston | 1 | 3A |
| Northeast Guilford | 1 | 3A |
| Terry Sanford | 1 | 3A |
| Tuscola | 1 | 3A |
| Western Harnett | 1 | 3A |
| 3A Total | 860 |