Public school / High
Tar River Academy
Rocky Mount, North Carolina
- NCES ID
- 370327001218
- District
- Nash County Public Schools
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Tar River Academy is a public high school in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, run by Nash County Public Schools. It enrols 89 students — the 88264th 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
89
Teachers
10.0
Students per teacher
8.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
93.3%
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 Nash 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.
- 1Rocky Mount High1,072 students
- 2Southern Nash High1,070 students
- 3Northern Nash High1,059 students
- 4Nash Central High921 students
- 5Red Oak Middle804 students
- 6Southern Nash Middle798 students
- 7Nashville Elementary672 students
- 8Coopers Elementary585 students
- Enrollment−82.5%
- Teachers−70.6%
- Students per teacher−41.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+36.4%
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