Gateway School

Gateway School operates as a rural-scale four-year high school in Granite Falls, North Carolina, overseen by Caldwell County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 53 students spanning grades 6 through 12. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 761 students each, so Gateway School sits 93% smaller than that benchmark.

Gateway School is one of 25 schools operated by Caldwell County Schools, a district that educates 10,667 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Gateway School logs that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 17% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Caldwell County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 5.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Caldwell County indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,425 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Gateway School is one of 26 public schools in Caldwell County (combined enrollment of about 10,920 students).

Dudley Shoals Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools.

Gateway School operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Gateway School's enrollment has decreased 16% since 2018, when it stood at 63 (now 53). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 78% to 62%.

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