Community High School

Community High School is one of the very small 9-12 campuss in Swannanoa, North Carolina, overseen by Buncombe County Schools, with 127 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. That puts it 83% leaner than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 761 students.

Within Buncombe County Schools, which oversees 45 schools and 22,452 students, Community High School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Community High School shows that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 22% Black, 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Buncombe County (around 88%), the school's rate is north of typical.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Buncombe County) reports that median household earnings sit near $74,436, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Buncombe County runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,908 students), of which Community High School is one.

Williams Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Community High School.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Community High School has edged down 10%, going from 141 students in 2018 to 127 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 70% to 61% over that span.

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