Penn-Griffin Schools

Penn-Griffin Schools, a cozy high school in High Point, North Carolina, one of the schools within Guilford County Schools, caters to 539 students, covering grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 29% smaller than the state mean of about 761.

Guilford County Schools comprises 123 schools with combined enrollment of 68,535 students; Penn-Griffin Schools is among them.

Demographically, Penn-Griffin Schools reports that the most-represented group is Black (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 20% White, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Guilford County as a whole is about 34% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at Penn-Griffin Schools qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Guilford County's rate of about 89%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Penn-Griffin Schools tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 50.2%.

Around the school, Guilford County reports that median household earnings sit near $68,642, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Guilford County's 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,539 students), Penn-Griffin Schools is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Parkview Village Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Penn-Griffin Schools comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 41.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Penn-Griffin Schools has contracted 10%, going from 599 students in 2018 to 539 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 25% to 20%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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