Eastern Alamance High

Eastern Alamance High is a four-year high school of average-sized scale in Mebane, North Carolina, operated by Alamance-Burlington Schools, caters to 952 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 761 students per school, that is 25% bigger than typical.

Alamance-Burlington Schools runs 37 schools in total, collectively educating 22,661 students. Eastern Alamance High is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Eastern Alamance High logs that the most-represented group is White (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% Black, 27% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Alamance County as a whole is about 60% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting Eastern Alamance High tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Alamance County's rate of about 80%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Eastern Alamance High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.4%; this one delivers 42.9%.

In the surrounding community, Alamance County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,651 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Alamance County's 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,737 students), Eastern Alamance High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Woodlawn Middle, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Eastern Alamance High ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 58.2%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. Eastern Alamance High's enrollment has fell 25% since 2018, when it stood at 1,273 (now 952). White enrollment moved from 58% to 35% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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