West Cabarrus High

West Cabarrus High is a high-enrollment high school in Concord, North Carolina, part of Cabarrus County Schools. The school serves 1,627 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 114% above the state mean of about 761.

Cabarrus County Schools comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 35,568 students; West Cabarrus High is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, West Cabarrus High lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 32%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 31% Black, 29% White, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Cabarrus County as a whole is about 13% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, West Cabarrus High reports 86 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.0:1. The state averages about 19.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 57% of students at West Cabarrus High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, West Cabarrus High is in the bottom 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 61.4%; West Cabarrus High posts 38.7%, -22.6 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Cabarrus County shows median household earnings sit near $89,005, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. West Cabarrus High is one of 56 public schools in Cabarrus County (combined enrollment of about 43,278 students).

Nearest neighbor: Weddington Hills Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Cabarrus High. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), West Cabarrus High ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 64.4%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

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