Maiden High

Maiden High, a medium-sized 9-12 campus in Maiden, North Carolina, overseen by Catawba County Schools, serves 852 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

Within Catawba County Schools, which oversees 28 schools and 16,003 students, Maiden High is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Maiden High records that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 18% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 7% Asian, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Maiden High has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Catawba County runs at roughly 86%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Maiden High is in the bottom 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 63.9%; Maiden High posts 46.3%, -17.6 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Catawba County indicate the typical household earns roughly $67,864 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Maiden High is one of 44 public schools in Catawba County (combined enrollment of about 22,392 students).

Maiden Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Maiden High. On composite proficiency, Maiden High comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 58.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 6%: 902 students in 2018 compared to 852 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 73% to 62% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 today.

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