Friday night football at Panther Creek Stadium in Cary brings out students and parents who are revving up for a new school year.

Many of the parents have had students here for a couple years and the school so far has received rave reviews.

“It's a spectacular school,” Panther Creek parent Dave Gessner said.

But going into only its third year, several modular classrooms have been shipped to Panther Creek to handle overcrowding. That is a concern for parents.

“I would ask why the school wasn't built to be able to hold the number of students with all of the growth in the area,” Tatiana Guy, a parent of a student at the school, said.

There is an even bigger concern, because come Monday morning the parking lot is going to be jam packed full of students and traffic.

Even at about 400 students over capacity, none of the portable classrooms will be able to be used yet.

"We have not received the permits from the Town of Cary. There was documentation submitted a few months ago,” said Michael Evans, a Wake County Schools Spokesperson.

Without the permits, the portables can sit on the school grounds, but they cannot be used. It means Panther Creek will have to be creative.

“You can use media centers, you can use conference rooms, depending on how big an elective is,” Evans said.

According to the Town of Cary, they want a new traffic study conducted because of the modular buildings. That is a prickly point for parents.

“Short of moving children to other schools, they're going to be here, so let's get them out of the hallway, let's get them out of the library, lets get them out of the cafeteria and get them into classrooms so they can go ahead and start their academic year,” Dave Gessner said.

And unless the process is sped up, students will not be moved into the portable classrooms until after winter break.

This part of Wake County is not the only area dealing with this overcrowding problem. Knightdale High School is in a similar situation.

The Wake County School System has moved modular units onto the grounds there to handle over crowding.

The Town of Knightdale has already approved permits for those units.