Public school / High
Cape Hatteras Secondary School
Buxton, North Carolina
- NCES ID
- 370111000454
- District
- Dare County Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Cape Hatteras Secondary School is a public high school in Buxton, North Carolina, run by Dare County Schools. It enrols 365 students — the 56232nd largest of 2,773 public schools in North Carolina.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
365
Teachers
36.0
Students per teacher
10.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
46.3%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Dare County Schools
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1First Flight High School956 students
- 2Manteo Elementary School660 students
- 3First Flight Middle School612 students
- 4Manteo High School578 students
- 5Nags Head Elementary School538 students
- 6Kitty Hawk Elementary School453 students
- 7Manteo Middle School369 students
- 8Cape Hatteras Secondary School365 students
- Enrollment−28.4%
- Teachers+5.9%
- Students per teacher−33.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−32.3%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory