Graham High

As a reasonably sized secondary school in Graham, North Carolina, Graham High enrolls 828 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Alamance-Burlington Schools.

Across the 37 schools in Alamance-Burlington Schools (22,661 students total), Graham High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Graham High records that 44% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 35% Black, 13% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Alamance County as a whole is about 15% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Alamance County runs at roughly 80%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Graham High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.4%; actual is 25.6%, a gap of -22.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Alamance County shows median household earnings sit near $65,651, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Graham High is one of 42 public schools in Alamance County (combined enrollment of about 25,737 students).

North Graham Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Graham High. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Graham High ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Graham High has grew 5%, going from 786 students in 2018 to 828 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 20% to 13%. Class-load math has grew: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 in 2025.

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