Roanoke Rapids High School

Roanoke Rapids High School is one of the average-sized high schools in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, one of the schools within Roanoke Rapids City Schools, with 776 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

Roanoke Rapids City Schools comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,744 students; Roanoke Rapids High School is among them.

Demographically, Roanoke Rapids High School logs that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 32% Black, 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 37% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Roanoke Rapids High School has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Roanoke Rapids High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.4%; actual is 28.3%, a gap of -20.1 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Halifax County put median household earnings sit near $45,590, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. Roanoke Rapids High School is one of 23 public schools in Halifax County (combined enrollment of about 6,803 students).

Roanoke Rapids Early College High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Roanoke Rapids High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.1%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Roanoke Rapids High School's enrollment has declined 23% since 2018, when it stood at 1,013 (now 776). Over the same period, the White share declined from 61% to 50%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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