H L Trigg Community

Set in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, H L Trigg Community is an one-room-style high school, run under Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools. It teaches 35 students across grades 6 through 12. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 761 students each, so H L Trigg Community sits 95% leaner than that benchmark.

Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 5,014 students; H L Trigg Community is among them.

On demographics, H L Trigg Community logs that Black students make up the majority at 57%. The remainder consists of 31% White, 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting H L Trigg Community tighter than the state norm the norm. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the area at large, Pasquotank County reports that median household income runs about $66,589, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Pasquotank County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,774 students), of which H L Trigg Community is one.

J C Sawyer 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 H L Trigg Community.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at H L Trigg Community has shrank 5%, going from 37 students in 2018 to 35 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 41% to 31% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 4.7:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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