South Garner High

South Garner High is a sizable secondary school in Garner, North Carolina, run under Wake County Schools. The school works with 1,835 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 141% bigger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 761 students.

Wake County Schools comprises 198 schools with combined enrollment of 163,176 students; South Garner High is among them.

On demographics, South Garner High shows that the largest single group is Black at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 34% Hispanic, 13% White, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 105 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Wake County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), South Garner High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.1%, the actual is 45.5%, a residual of -14.6 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Wake County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Wake County runs 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), of which South Garner High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Bryan Road Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around South Garner High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts South Garner High at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 54.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.