Southwest Guilford High

Southwest Guilford High operates as an expansive high school in High Point, North Carolina, one of the schools within Guilford County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 1,547 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 103% bigger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 761 students.

Guilford County Schools comprises 123 schools with combined enrollment of 68,535 students; Southwest Guilford High is among them.

On the student-mix side, Southwest Guilford High lists that the largest single group is Black at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 27% White, 14% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the resource side, On paper, Southwest Guilford High has 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting Southwest Guilford High tighter than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Guilford County's rate of about 89%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Southwest Guilford High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 42.5%, a residual of -5.9 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Guilford County put median household income runs about $68,642, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Guilford County's 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,539 students), Southwest Guilford High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Southwest Guilford Middle, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Southwest Guilford High ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.3%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Southwest Guilford High has contracted 3%, going from 1,598 students in 2018 to 1,547 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 42% to 27% across the same window.

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