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The public high schools with the most Black students in Durham, North Carolina

Across Durham, North Carolina, 14 public high schools are ranked here, ranked by the total number of Black or African American students enrolled. Hillside High leads the list at 859, against a median of 193 across the ranked schools.

The table below is sortable and filterable, and the full list downloads as a CSV. Figures come from federal NCES enrollment data and, where applicable, state assessment results for 2024-25.

Schools ranked

Durham, North Carolina

Top Black students

859

Median Black students

193

MOST BLACK (COUNT) · DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA

#	School	City	District	Students	% Black	Black students
1	Hillside High	Durham, NC	Durham Public Schools	1,433	59.9%	859
2	C E Jordan High	Durham, NC	Durham Public Schools	2,189	29.8%	653
3	Southern School of Energy and Sustainabi	Durham, NC	Durham Public Schools	1,384	45.1%	624
4	Riverside High	Durham, NC	Durham Public Schools	1,900	28.1%	534
5	Northern High	Durham, NC	Durham Public Schools	1,281	38.9%	498
6	Durham School of the Arts	Durham, NC	Durham Public Schools	1,764	24.8%	437
7	J D Clement Early College HS	Durham, NC	Durham Public Schools	380	56.3%	214
8	The School for Creative Studies	Durham, NC	Durham Public Schools	350	48.9%	171
9	Durham School of Technology	Durham, NC	Durham Public Schools	219	66.7%	146
10	City of Medicine Academy	Durham, NC	Durham Public Schools	329	36.8%	121
11	Research Triangle High School	Durham, NC	Research Triangle High School	572	15.7%	90
12	Durham's Performance Learning Center	Durham, NC	Durham Public Schools	122	50.0%	61
13	Middle College HS @ DTCC	Durham, NC	Durham Public Schools	164	28.1%	46
14	Lakeview School	Durham, NC	Durham Public Schools	52	61.5%	32

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