Hobbton High

Located at 12201 Hobbton Hwy, in Newton Grove, North Carolina, Hobbton High is a tight-knit 9-12 campus that hosts 467 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Sampson County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 39% smaller than the state mean of about 761.

Hobbton High is one of 18 schools operated by Sampson County Schools, a district that hosts 7,986 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Hobbton High lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 55%; the rest breaks down as 26% White, 15% Black, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hobbton High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 36.9%, a residual of -11.6 points.

In the surrounding community, Sampson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $52,432 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Sampson County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,001 students), of which Hobbton High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Hobbton Middle, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Hobbton High. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hobbton High ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 59.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hobbton High has fell 14%, going from 544 students in 2018 to 467 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 41% to 26% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

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