Person High

Person High, a sprawling secondary school in Roxboro, North Carolina, one of the schools within Person County Schools, hosts 1,165 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 761 students each, so Person High sits 53% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 12 schools in Person County Schools (4,497 students total), Person High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Person High reports that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 34% Black, 16% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 65%.

On the resource side, On paper, Person High has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting Person High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Person High is in the bottom 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.4%; Person High posts 30.5%, -17.9 points below that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Person County put the typical household earns roughly $63,300 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Person High is one of 15 public schools in Person County (combined enrollment of about 5,659 students).

Nearest neighbor: PCS Virtual Academy, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Person High ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 52.9%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 9%: 1,280 students in 2018 compared to 1,165 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 9% to 16% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 25.8:1 in 2025.

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