Mount Tabor High School

Located at 342 Petree Road, in Winston Salem, North Carolina, Mount Tabor High School is a well-populated high school that caters to 1,426 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools. Compared to the state average of about 761 students per school, that is 87% larger than typical.

Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools comprises 79 schools with combined enrollment of 51,745 students; Mount Tabor High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Mount Tabor High School shows that the most-represented group is Black (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% White, 25% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 25% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Forsyth County's rate of about 88%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mount Tabor High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.6%.

Around the school, Forsyth County reports that median household earnings sit near $67,165, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Forsyth County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,902 students), Mount Tabor High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Thomas Jefferson Middle, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mount Tabor High School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 67.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mount Tabor High School has edged down 10%, going from 1,580 students in 2018 to 1,426 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 17% to 25%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

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