Bunker Hill High

Set in Claremont, North Carolina, Bunker Hill High is a mid-tier high school, part of Catawba County Schools. It teaches 845 students across grades 9 through 12.

Catawba County Schools comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 16,003 students; Bunker Hill High is among them.

Demographically, Bunker Hill High logs that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 21% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 8% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Catawba County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Catawba County's rate of about 86%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bunker Hill High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 36.3%, a residual of -12.1 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Catawba County shows median household earnings sit near $67,864, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Catawba County's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,392 students), Bunker Hill High is one campus in the mix.

River Bend Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Bunker Hill High. On composite proficiency, Bunker Hill High comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.4%.

Bunker Hill High operates from a rural location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bunker Hill High has fell 5%, going from 886 students in 2018 to 845 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 63% to 54% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 today.

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