Granville Central High

Located at 2043 Sanders Rd, in Stem, North Carolina, Granville Central High is a cozy senior high that educates 531 students (grades 9 through 12), run under Granville County Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 761 students each, so Granville Central High sits 30% below that benchmark.

Granville County Schools runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 6,402 students. Granville Central High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Granville Central High reports that 45% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 32% Black, 18% White, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting Granville Central High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Granville Central High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 49.0%; this one comes in at 28.0%, -21.1 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, Granville County reports that median household income runs about $71,111, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Granville County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,376 students), Granville Central High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Granville Early College High, around 5.3 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Granville Central High ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 47.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Granville Central High's enrollment has shrank 19% since 2018, when it stood at 658 (now 531). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 43% to 18%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 23.4:1 today.

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