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Public school / Middle

Horton Middle

Pittsboro, North Carolina

NCES ID
370075000309
District
Chatham County Schools
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Horton Middle is a public middle school in Pittsboro, North Carolina, run by Chatham County Schools. It enrols 375 students — the 54744th 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

375students

54744th nationally, tied with 141

Teachers

21.0FTE

62587th nationally, tied with 2,266

Students per teacher

17.9students

69838th nationally, tied with 535

Free or reduced-price lunch

39.5%percent

61044th nationally, tied with 86

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 Chatham 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. 1Northwood High940 students
  2. 2Jordan Matthews High913 students
  3. 3Margaret B. Pollard Middle768 students
  4. 4Seaforth High732 students
  5. 5Chatham Grove Elementary677 students
  6. 6Siler City Elementary636 students
  7. 7North Chatham Elementary616 students
  8. 8Chatham Middle556 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−26.5%
  • Teachers−38.2%
  • Students per teacher+18.5%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−42.3%
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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.