Pine Forest High

As a sprawling secondary school in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Pine Forest High educates 1,551 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Cumberland County Schools. Compared to the state average of about 761 students per school, that is 104% bigger than typical.

Across the 86 schools in Cumberland County Schools (49,002 students total), Pine Forest High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Pine Forest High logs that the largest single group is Black at 49%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 22% White, 16% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Cumberland County as a whole is about 38% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 65% of students at Pine Forest High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Cumberland County's rate of about 86%.

After controlling for student poverty, Pine Forest High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.9%, the actual is 57.1%, a residual of -1.8 points.

Around the school, Cumberland County reports that the typical household earns roughly $61,291 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cumberland County's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,815 students), Pine Forest High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Howard L Hall Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pine Forest High. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pine Forest High ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 52.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 1,580 students in 2018 compared to 1,551 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 30% to 22% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 26.1:1 today.

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