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Public school / Other

Highlands School

Highlands, North Carolina

NCES ID
370276001139
District
Macon County Schools
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Highlands School is a public other school in Highlands, North Carolina, run by Macon County Schools. It enrols 332 students — the 61069th largest of 2,773 public schools in North Carolina.

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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

332students

61069th nationally, tied with 126

Teachers

34.0FTE

34064th nationally, tied with 1,817

Students per teacher

9.8students

8359th nationally, tied with 396

Free or reduced-price lunch

37.3%percent

63050th nationally, tied with 102

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.

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Within Macon 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Franklin High1,005 students
  2. 2Macon Middle School599 students
  3. 3Mountain View Intermediate567 students
  4. 4South Macon Elementary498 students
  5. 5Iotla Valley Elementary403 students
  6. 6East Franklin Elementary360 students
  7. 7Cartoogechaye Elementary349 students
  8. 8Highlands School332 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: North Carolina median across 2,773 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−34.9%
  • Teachers0.0%
  • Students per teacher−35.1%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−45.5%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.