Rosewood High

Rosewood High operates as an intimate senior high in Goldsboro, North Carolina, overseen by Wayne County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 460 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 761 students each, so Rosewood High sits 40% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 33 schools in Wayne County Public Schools (17,150 students total), Rosewood High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Rosewood High shows that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 18% Black, 16% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 51% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 98% of students at Rosewood High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rosewood High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.8%, the actual is 51.3%, a residual of +2.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Wayne County) records that median household earnings sit near $59,733, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Rosewood High is one of 36 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 18,481 students).

Nearest neighbor: Rosewood Middle, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Rosewood High. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rosewood High ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 47.6%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 10%: 512 students in 2018 compared to 460 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 65% to 60% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 in 2025.

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