High · North Carolina
Northern High
Northern High, a public high school in Durham, North Carolina: grades 9–12, 1,281 students, 18.3 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Durham Public 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
- 1,281
- Teachers (FTE)
- 70.0
- Students per teacher
- 18.3
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 50% of high schools in North Carolina
Median 18.4 · 604 schools compared
More students per teacher than 75% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 80% of high schools in North Carolina
Median 634 · 611 schools compared
Larger than 81% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Area
- Large city
- Run by
- Durham Public Schools
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Durham Public Schools.
Location
- Address
- 4622 N Roxboro Street, Durham, NC 27704
- Phone
- (919)560-3956
- City or town
- Durham
- County
- Durham 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 | 329 | 16.6 | |
Lakeview SchoolAlternative | 6–12 | 52 | 2.8 |
| 9–12 | 1,900 | 20.3 | |
| 6–12 | 1,764 | 17.6 | |
| 6–12 | 350 | 10.2 | |
Discovery CharterCharter | 6–11 | 453 | 15.4 |
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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