Edgecombe Early College High

Edgecombe Early College High is a small high school with its address in Tarboro, North Carolina. Its 171 students are spread across grades 9 through 13. The typical figure for high schools in North Carolina is about 761 students.

Edgecombe County Public Schools runs Edgecombe Early College High along with 18 other schools, enrolling 6,310 students in total.

Enrollment at Edgecombe Early College High is mixed, with White students the largest group at 38%. After that, the student body is 32% Black, 25% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. For comparison, Edgecombe County is about 37% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Edgecombe Early College High belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 69%.

Staffing totals 7.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 21.9:1. The average ratio among high schools in North Carolina is 19.6:1, lower than at this school. Around 98% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That is close to the 99% average for public schools in Edgecombe County.

Edgecombe Early College High is located in Edgecombe County, where median household income is about $51,265, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 18%, and about 19% of people live in poverty. Edgecombe Early College High is one of 27 public schools in Edgecombe County, which together enroll about 8,573 students.

North East Carolina Prep is the public school closest to Edgecombe Early College High, about 1.0 miles away. Edgecombe Early College High has 6 other public schools within five miles.

For locale, NCES codes Edgecombe Early College High as Rural: Fringe.

Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 202 to 171. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 21.9:1, from 20.2:1.

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