South Central

South Central operates as a sizable four-year high school in Winterville, North Carolina, one of the schools within Pitt County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 1,738 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 128% bigger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 761 students.

South Central is one of 40 schools operated by Pitt County Schools, a district that serves 24,470 students overall.

On the student-mix side, South Central shows that the largest single group is Black, at 65% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 20% White, 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 94 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.4:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at South Central qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), South Central performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 43.8%, a residual of -4.6 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Pitt County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $58,188 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. South Central is one of 43 public schools in Pitt County (combined enrollment of about 25,202 students).

Creekside Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, South Central comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 62.3%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. South Central's enrollment has increased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,633 (now 1,738). White enrollment moved from 30% to 20% across the same window.

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