Early College EAST High

As a rural-scale four-year high school in Havelock, North Carolina, Early College EAST High enrolls 208 students from grades 9 through 13, one of the schools within Craven County Board of Education. That puts it 73% smaller than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 761 students.

Craven County Board of Education runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 12,152 students. Early College EAST High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Early College EAST High reports that 62% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 18% Hispanic, 10% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 37.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 27% of students at Early College EAST High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Craven County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Early College EAST High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.5%, the actual is 61.6%, a residual of -8.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Craven County indicate median household earnings sit near $65,873, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Craven County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,526 students), of which Early College EAST High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Havelock Elementary, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Early College EAST High at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 55.6%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Early College EAST High has ticked up 8%, going from 192 students in 2018 to 208 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 8% to 18% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 37.1:1 in 2025.

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