Hertford County High

Hertford County High is a four-year high school of small scale in Ahoskie, North Carolina, operated by Hertford County Schools, serveing 447 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 761 students per school, that is 41% smaller than typical.

Hertford County Schools runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,367 students. Hertford County High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hertford County High lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (84%); the rest looks like 6% Hispanic, 6% White, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

On the resource side, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting Hertford County High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at Hertford County High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hertford County High is in the bottom 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.5%; Hertford County High posts 23.8%, -24.7 points below that line.

Around the school, Hertford County reports that median household earnings sit near $45,537, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Hertford County High is one of 7 public schools in Hertford County (combined enrollment of about 2,367 students).

The closest other public school is Bearfield Primary, roughly 0.2 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hertford County High comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.8%.

Hertford County High operates from a town-center location.

Looking at the recent track record. Hertford County High's enrollment has shrank 32% since 2018, when it stood at 656 (now 447). Over the same period, the White share fell from 11% to 6%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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