Wheatmore High School

Wheatmore High School, a middle-of-the-pack 9-12 campus in Trinity, North Carolina, run under Randolph County School System, instructs 667 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

Within Randolph County School System, which oversees 32 schools and 14,994 students, Wheatmore High School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Wheatmore High School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%); the rest comes out to 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Randolph County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Randolph County (around 84%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Wheatmore High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 64.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.2%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Randolph County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,022 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Randolph County runs 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,656 students), of which Wheatmore High School is one.

Hopewell Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wheatmore High School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 48.7%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 22%: 851 students in 2018 compared to 667 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 89% to 82% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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