Tarboro High

Set in Tarboro, North Carolina, Tarboro High is an intimate 9-12 campus, run under Edgecombe County Public Schools. It instructs 496 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 35% smaller than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 761 students.

Tarboro High is one of 19 schools operated by Edgecombe County Public Schools, a district that instructs 6,310 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Tarboro High shows that 76% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest reads as 12% White, 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 56% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Tarboro High logs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Tarboro High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.5%; actual is 11.5%, a gap of -37.0 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Edgecombe County put median household earnings sit near $51,265, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. Across Edgecombe County's 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,573 students), Tarboro High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Stocks Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Tarboro High comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.4%.

Tarboro High operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tarboro High has ticked down 17%, going from 598 students in 2018 to 496 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 17% to 12% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.

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