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Roxboro Community School
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Roxboro Community School
As a moderately sized four-year high school in Roxboro, North Carolina, Roxboro Community School serves 727 students from grades 6 through 12, part of Roxboro Community School.
Roxboro Community School is a school of Roxboro Community School, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
Looking at the student body, Roxboro Community School reports that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 12% Black, 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Person County as a whole is about 65% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, On paper, Roxboro Community School has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Person County) logs that median household income runs about $63,300, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Roxboro Community School is one of 15 public schools in Person County (combined enrollment of about 5,659 students).
Southern Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Roxboro Community School.
Geographically, the school is in a town-based area. As a public charter, Roxboro Community School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 714 students in 2018 compared to 727 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 82% to 75% over that span.
Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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