Bertie High

Bertie High, a close-knit secondary school in Windsor, North Carolina, overseen by Bertie County Schools, instructs 449 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 761 students per school, that is 41% leaner than typical.

Across the 7 schools in Bertie County Schools (1,819 students total), Bertie High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Bertie High logs that 84% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest comes out to 8% White, 6% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Bertie High reports 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bertie High is in the bottom 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.5%; Bertie High posts 27.0%, -21.5 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Bertie County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $48,750 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Bertie County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,819 students), Bertie High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Bertie Early College High, roughly 0.2 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bertie High ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.0%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Bertie High's enrollment has shrank 21% since 2018, when it stood at 569 (now 449).

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