Walkertown High

Walkertown High is a moderately sized senior high in Walkertown, North Carolina, one of the schools within Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools. The school hosts 662 students in grades 9 through 12.

Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools runs 79 schools in total, collectively educating 51,745 students. Walkertown High is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Walkertown High logs that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 26% Black, 26% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Forsyth County (around 88%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Walkertown High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.4%; actual is 26.8%, a gap of -21.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, Forsyth County reports that the typical household earns roughly $67,165 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Walkertown High is one of 88 public schools in Forsyth County (combined enrollment of about 55,902 students).

Nearest neighbor: Walkertown Middle, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Walkertown High comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.7%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 14%: 774 students in 2018 compared to 662 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 60% to 42%.

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