Public school / High
E E Smith High
Fayetteville, North Carolina
- NCES ID
- 370001102124
- District
- Cumberland County Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
E E Smith High is a public high school in Fayetteville, North Carolina, run by Cumberland County Schools. It enrols 1,004 students — the 8566th 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
1,004
Teachers
59.0
Students per teacher
17.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
99.2%
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 Cumberland 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.
- 1Jack Britt High1,890 students
- 2Pine Forest High1,572 students
- 3Cape Fear High1,529 students
- 4South View High1,502 students
- 5Gray'S Creek High1,395 students
- 6Seventy-First High1,366 students
- 7Terry Sanford High1,224 students
- 8Westover High1,202 students
- Enrollment+96.9%
- Teachers+73.5%
- Students per teacher+12.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+45.0%
Where this sits
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