Chapel Hill High

Located at 9217 Seawell School Rd, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Chapel Hill High is a well-populated high school that teaches 1,608 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 111% above the state mean of about 761.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 11,392 students; Chapel Hill High is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Chapel Hill High shows that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 11% Black, 7% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 101 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Orange County's rate of about 40%.

With demographic context factored in, Chapel Hill High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 72.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 66.4%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Orange County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,089 per year, roughly 62% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Orange County's 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,582 students), Chapel Hill High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Smith Middle, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chapel Hill High ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 74.8%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 3%: 1,566 students in 2018 compared to 1,608 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 14% to 20%.

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