High · North Carolina
McDowell Academy for Innovation
McDowell Academy for Innovation, a public high school in Marion, North Carolina: grades 9–13, 158 students, 22.6 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of McDowell 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
- 158
- Teachers (FTE)
- 7.0
- Students per teacher
- 22.6
- Grades
- 9–13
- High
More students per teacher than 76% of high schools in North Carolina
Median 18.4 · 604 schools compared
More students per teacher than 90% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 83% of high schools in North Carolina
Median 634 · 611 schools compared
Smaller than 74% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–13
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Area
- Rural area near a city
- Run by
- McDowell County Schools
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with McDowell County Schools.
Location
- Address
- 54 College Drive, Marion, NC 28752
- Phone
- (828)659-0411
- City or town
- Marion
- County
- McDowell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9–13 | 241 | 19.8 | |
The Summit AcademyAlternative | 6–12 | 23 | 5.8 |
| 9–12 | 1,379 | 15.7 | |
| 9–12 | 1,299 | 22.7 | |
| 11–12 | 130 | 43.3 | |
| 9–12 | 756 | 24.4 |
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).
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