High · North Carolina
Hiwassee Dam High
Hiwassee Dam High, a public high school in Murphy, North Carolina: grades 9–12, 137 students, 15.9 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Cherokee County Schools.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 137
- Teachers (FTE)
- 8.6
- Students per teacher
- 15.9
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 72% of high schools in North Carolina
Median 18.4 · 604 schools compared
More students per teacher than 60% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 85% of high schools in North Carolina
Median 634 · 611 schools compared
Smaller than 76% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Area
- Remote rural area
- Run by
- Cherokee County Schools
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Cherokee County Schools.
Location
- Address
- 267 Blue Eagle Circle, Murphy, NC 28906
- Phone
- (828)644-5115
- County
- Cherokee County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Copper Basin High SchoolFree meals for all | 7–12 | 231 | — |
| 9–12 | 424 | 20.9 | |
| 9–13 | 153 | 18.5 | |
The Oaks AcademyAlternative | 6–12 | 43 | 7.4 |
Fannin County High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 824 | 14.0 |
Tellico Plains High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 435 | — |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
NCES 370078002626