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Gray Stone Day
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Gray Stone Day
Gray Stone Day operates as a moderately sized four-year high school in Misenheimer, North Carolina, part of Gray Stone Day School. Current enrollment sits at 728 students spanning grades 6 through 12.
Gray Stone Day is a school of Gray Stone Day School, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Gray Stone Day lists that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Black. Compared to Stanly County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Stanly County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,704 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Stanly County's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,471 students), Gray Stone Day is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Richfield Elementary, roughly 1.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.
Gray Stone Day operates from an outlying location. Gray Stone Day is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Over the past 7-year window. Gray Stone Day's enrollment has edged down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 836 (now 728). Class-load math has tightened: from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.
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