Carrboro High

Located at 201 Rock Haven Rd, in Carrboro, North Carolina, Carrboro High is a mid-tier four-year high school that hosts 885 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.

Carrboro High is one of 20 schools operated by Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, a district that enrolls 11,392 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Carrboro High shows that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 31% Hispanic, 9% Black, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Orange County (around 40%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Carrboro High is in the bottom 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 69.6%; Carrboro High posts 50.8%, -18.8 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,089 per year, roughly 62% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Orange County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,582 students), of which Carrboro High is one.

Nearest neighbor: FPG Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Carrboro High comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 66.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 4%: 852 students in 2018 compared to 885 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 20% to 31% across the same window.

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