County / FIPS 37111
McDowell County
North Carolina
McDowell County runs 15 public schools reporting to NCES. No Medicare-certified hospital reports to CMS from here — a real finding about rural healthcare access, not a gap in this site; North Carolina has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
15
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
440
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in McDowell County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$741.7M
Per resident
$16,638
Change since FY2021
+139%
Fiscal years covered
5
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| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $310M |
| 2022 | $306M |
| 2023 | $322M |
| 2024 | $319M |
| 2025 | $742M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. McDowell County ranks 657th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in McDowell County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Mcdowell Middle School | Mcdowell County Schools | Marion | 468 |
| Eastfield Global Magnet School | Mcdowell County Schools | Marion | 266 |
| Foothills Community School | Mcdowell County Schools | Marion | 188 |
| Glenwood Elementary School | Mcdowell County Schools | Marion | 437 |
| Marion Elementary School | Mcdowell County Schools | Marion | 355 |
| Mcdowell Academy for Innovation | Mcdowell County Schools | Marion | 113 |
| Mcdowell Early College | Mcdowell County Schools | Marion | 225 |
| Mcdowell High School | Mcdowell County Schools | Marion | 1,416 |
| Mcdowell Virtual Academy | Mcdowell County Schools | Marion | 140 |
| Nebo Elementary School | Mcdowell County Schools | Nebo | 339 |
| North Cove Elementary School | Mcdowell County Schools | Marion | 227 |
| Old Fort Elementary School | Mcdowell County Schools | Old Fort | 316 |
| Pleasant Gardens Elementary School | Mcdowell County Schools | Marion | 304 |
| West Marion Elementary School | Mcdowell County Schools | Marion | 377 |
| West Mcdowell Middle School | Mcdowell County Schools | Marion | 605 |