Mattamuskeet School

Mattamuskeet School is one of the compact K-12 campuss in Swan Quarter, North Carolina, run under Hyde County Schools, with 299 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 59% smaller than the state mean of about 731.

Hyde County Schools comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 485 students; Mattamuskeet School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Mattamuskeet School shows that 50% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 30% Black, 15% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hyde County (around 82%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Mattamuskeet School is in the bottom 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.6%; Mattamuskeet School posts 30.3%, -18.4 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Hyde County) logs that median household earnings sit near $53,713, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mattamuskeet School is one of 3 public schools in Hyde County (combined enrollment of about 485 students).

Hyde Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Mattamuskeet School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mattamuskeet School has rose 26%, going from 237 students in 2018 to 299 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.

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