Public school / High
Union Academy
Franklin, North Carolina
- NCES ID
- 370276003126
- District
- Macon County Schools
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Union Academy is a public high school in Franklin, North Carolina, run by Macon County Schools. It enrols 103 students — the 87013th 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
103
Teachers
8.0
Students per teacher
12.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
97.1%
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 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.
- 1Franklin High1,005 students
- 2Macon Middle School599 students
- 3Mountain View Intermediate567 students
- 4South Macon Elementary498 students
- 5Iotla Valley Elementary403 students
- 6East Franklin Elementary360 students
- 7Cartoogechaye Elementary349 students
- 8Highlands School332 students
- Enrollment−79.8%
- Teachers−76.5%
- Students per teacher−14.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+42.0%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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