Wallace-Rose Hill High

Wallace-Rose Hill High is one of the moderately sized secondary schools in Teachey, North Carolina, run under Duplin County Schools, with 738 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

Across the 13 schools in Duplin County Schools (9,822 students total), Wallace-Rose Hill High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Wallace-Rose Hill High reports that 49% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 28% Black, 19% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Duplin County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.5:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Wallace-Rose Hill High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.4%; actual is 20.8%, a gap of -27.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Duplin County reports that median household earnings sit near $55,148, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Wallace-Rose Hill High is one of 13 public schools in Duplin County (combined enrollment of about 9,822 students).

Nearest neighbor: Wallace Elementary, around 2.8 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wallace-Rose Hill High at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 43.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 9%: 675 students in 2018 compared to 738 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 36% to 49%.

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