Wayne School of Technical Arts

Wayne School of Technical Arts is one of the one-room-style senior highs in Goldsboro, North Carolina, one of the schools within Wayne County Public Schools, with 271 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 761 students each, so Wayne School of Technical Arts sits 64% leaner than that benchmark.

Wayne County Public Schools runs 33 schools in total, collectively educating 17,150 students. Wayne School of Technical Arts is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Wayne School of Technical Arts shows that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 25% Black, 14% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. Compared to Wayne County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Roughly 98% of students at Wayne School of Technical Arts qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Wayne School of Technical Arts ranks in the top 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 49.0%; Wayne School of Technical Arts posts 83.6%, +34.6 points above that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Wayne County shows median household income runs about $59,733, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Wayne School of Technical Arts is one of 36 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 18,481 students).

The closest other public school is Meadow Lane Elementary, roughly 1.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wayne School of Technical Arts ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 46.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

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