Cherryville High

As a modestly sized senior high in Cherryville, North Carolina, Cherryville High hosts 484 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Gaston County Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 761 students each, so Cherryville High sits 36% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 56 schools in Gaston County Schools (30,995 students total), Cherryville High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Cherryville High records that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment; the rest consists of 12% Hispanic, 12% Black, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Gaston County's rate of about 85%.

After controlling for student poverty, Cherryville High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 46.4%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the area at large, Gaston County reports that the typical household earns roughly $67,478 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Gaston County's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,898 students), Cherryville High is one campus in the mix.

W B Beam Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Cherryville High. On composite proficiency, Cherryville High comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Cherryville High's enrollment has shrank 9% since 2018, when it stood at 531 (now 484). White enrollment moved from 81% to 72% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Cherryville High typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.