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Public school / High

Tuscola High

Waynesville, North Carolina

NCES ID
370204000910
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Tuscola High is a public high school in Waynesville, North Carolina, run by Haywood County Schools. It enrols 917 students — the 10420th 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

917students

10420th nationally, tied with 21

Teachers

58.0FTE

10590th nationally, tied with 474

Students per teacher

15.8students

54892nd nationally, tied with 904

Free or reduced-price lunch

49.2%percent

51323rd nationally, tied with 85

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 Haywood 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. 1Pisgah High927 students
  2. 2Tuscola High917 students
  3. 3Waynesville Middle720 students
  4. 4Bethel Elementary526 students
  5. 5Clyde Elementary526 students
  6. 6Hazelwood Elementary492 students
  7. 7Canton Middle449 students
  8. 8Junaluska Elementary447 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+79.8%
  • Teachers+70.6%
  • Students per teacher+4.6%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−28.1%
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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.