Cross Creek Early College

Cross Creek Early College is a small high school that serves part of Fayetteville, North Carolina. The school's 253 students are in grades 9 through 12. Statewide, high schools in North Carolina average about 761 students each.

The district, Cumberland County Schools, has 49,002 students enrolled across 86 schools.

Black students form the largest group at Cross Creek Early College, 45% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 20% Hispanic, 16% White, 11% multiracial, and 6% Asian. The chance that two students picked at random at Cross Creek Early College belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 71%.

The school reports 10.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 23.8 students per teacher. The 19.6:1 average for high schools in North Carolina is lower than this school's figure. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 47%. The gap from the 86% average for public schools in Cumberland County is 39 points.

Cumberland County has about 338,545 residents, and median household income is about $61,291, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Cumberland County number 89 and enroll about 50,815.

Of nearby public schools, Cumberland International Early College is the closest, at about 0.2 miles. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8.

The NCES locale for Cross Creek Early College is City: Mid-size, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Enrollment was 281 in 2020-21 and 253 in 2024-25, a decrease of 28 students.

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