South Stokes High School

South Stokes High School is one of the close-knit secondary schools in Walnut Cove, North Carolina, one of the schools within Stokes County Schools, with 538 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 29% below the state mean of about 761.

Across the 19 schools in Stokes County Schools (5,758 students total), South Stokes High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, South Stokes High School reports that nearly all students (86%) are White; the rest is composed of 5% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Stokes County (around 82%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), South Stokes High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 63.0%; this one comes in at 36.2%, -26.8 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, Stokes County reports that median household earnings sit near $62,969, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. South Stokes High School is one of 19 public schools in Stokes County (combined enrollment of about 5,758 students).

The closest other public school is Germanton Elementary School, roughly 2.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, South Stokes High School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.0%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 9%: 494 students in 2018 compared to 538 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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