Public school / High
West Henderson High
Hendersonville, North Carolina
- NCES ID
- 370210000926
- District
- Henderson County Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
West Henderson High is a public high school in Hendersonville, North Carolina, run by Henderson County Schools. It enrols 1,087 students — the 7197th 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
1,087
Teachers
68.0
Students per teacher
16.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
33.8%
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 Henderson 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.
- 1North Henderson High1,146 students
- 2West Henderson High1,087 students
- 3East Henderson High965 students
- 4Apple Valley Middle825 students
- 5Rugby Middle804 students
- 6Hendersonville High784 students
- 7Flat Rock Middle706 students
- 8Mills River Elementary589 students
- Enrollment+113.1%
- Teachers+100.0%
- Students per teacher+6.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−50.6%
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