Scotland High School

Set in Laurinburg, North Carolina, Scotland High School is a sizable four-year high school, run under Scotland County Schools. It educates 1,294 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 761 students each, so Scotland High School sits 70% above that benchmark.

Scotland High School is one of 10 schools operated by Scotland County Schools, a district that serves 5,416 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Scotland High School logs that the most-represented group is Black (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 23% White, 15% Native American, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Scotland High School logs 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. 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, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Scotland High School is in the bottom 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.4%; Scotland High School posts 29.2%, -19.2 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Scotland County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $45,730 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 22%. In all, Scotland County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,416 students), of which Scotland High School is one.

The closest other public school is Scotland Early College High, roughly 0.5 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Scotland High School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.3%.

Scotland High School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Scotland High School's enrollment has edged down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 1,485 (now 1,294). White enrollment moved from 31% to 23% across the same window.

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