Garner High

As a substantial senior high in Garner, North Carolina, Garner High enrolls 1,670 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Wake County Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 761 students each, so Garner High sits 119% bigger than that benchmark.

Wake County Schools runs 198 schools in total, collectively educating 163,176 students. Garner High is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Garner High lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 33% Black, 28% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Wake County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 107 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Wake County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Garner High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 62.1%; actual is 39.2%, a gap of -22.9 points.

Around the school, Wake County reports that median household earnings sit near $105,768, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Garner High is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

The closest other public school is Swift Creek Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Garner High. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Garner High ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Garner High has contracted 39%, going from 2,748 students in 2018 to 1,670 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 33% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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