Croatan High

Set in Newport, North Carolina, Croatan High is a middle-of-the-pack high school, run under Carteret County Public Schools. It teaches 1,019 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 34% above the state mean of about 761.

Within Carteret County Public Schools, which oversees 17 schools and 7,847 students, Croatan High is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Croatan High lists that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Carteret County's rate of about 76%.

With demographic context factored in, Croatan High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.3%; this one delivers 76.1%.

In the broader community, census data for Carteret County shows median household earnings sit near $72,322, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Carteret County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,053 students), of which Croatan High is one.

Bogue Sound Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Croatan High comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 65.9%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Croatan High's enrollment has rose 13% since 2018, when it stood at 900 (now 1,019). Class-load math has grew: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 23.4:1 in 2025.

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