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Public school / High

Smoky Mountain High School

Sylva, North Carolina

NCES ID
370234001008
District
Jackson County Public Schools
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Smoky Mountain High School is a public high school in Sylva, North Carolina, run by Jackson County Public Schools. It enrols 899 students — the 10882nd 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

899students

10882nd nationally, tied with 22

Teachers

54.0FTE

12575th nationally, tied with 527

Students per teacher

16.6students

61544th nationally, tied with 701

Free or reduced-price lunch

54.2%percent

46297th nationally, tied with 93

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 Jackson County Public 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. 1Smoky Mountain High School899 students
  2. 2Fairview Elementary762 students
  3. 3Cullowhee Valley School619 students
  4. 4Scotts Creek Elementary451 students
  5. 5Smokey Mountain Elementary353 students
  6. 6Blue Ridge School165 students
  7. 7Blue Ridge Early College132 students
  8. 8Jackson Co Early College101 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+76.3%
  • Teachers+58.8%
  • Students per teacher+9.9%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−20.8%
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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.