E E Smith High

Located at 1800 Seabrook Road, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, E E Smith High is a medium-sized senior high that educates 1,017 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Cumberland County Schools. That puts it 34% larger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 761 students.

Cumberland County Schools runs 86 schools in total, collectively educating 49,002 students. E E Smith High is one of those campuses.

Demographically, E E Smith High logs that 65% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 10% White, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Cumberland County as a whole is about 38% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cumberland County runs at roughly 86%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, E E Smith High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 40.7%, a residual of -7.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Cumberland County put the typical household earns roughly $61,291 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. E E Smith High is one of 89 public schools in Cumberland County (combined enrollment of about 50,815 students).

The closest other public school is Ferguson-Easley Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), E E Smith High ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 36.9%.

E E Smith High operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at E E Smith High has edged up 9%, going from 936 students in 2018 to 1,017 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 73% to 65% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 in 2025.

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