The Community Learning Center @ Pinckney

Set in Carthage, North Carolina, The Community Learning Center @ Pinckney is an one-room-style 9-12 campus, part of Moore County Schools. It teaches 77 students across grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 90% leaner than the state mean of about 761.

Within Moore County Schools, which oversees 23 schools and 13,085 students, The Community Learning Center @ Pinckney is one campus in the system.

Demographically, The Community Learning Center @ Pinckney logs that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 36% Black, 12% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Moore County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, The Community Learning Center @ Pinckney has 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting The Community Learning Center @ Pinckney tighter than the state norm the norm. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Moore County's rate of about 64%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Moore County) reports that median household income runs about $86,080, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Moore County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,708 students), of which The Community Learning Center @ Pinckney is one.

Nearest neighbor: Carthage Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around The Community Learning Center @ Pinckney.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 35%: 57 students in 2018 compared to 77 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 46% to 36% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 8.4:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

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