High · North Carolina
Polk County High School
Polk County High School, a public high school in Columbus, North Carolina: grades 9–12, 596 students, 18.6 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Polk 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
- 596
- Teachers (FTE)
- 32.1
- Students per teacher
- 18.6
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 52% of high schools in North Carolina
Median 18.4 · 604 schools compared
More students per teacher than 77% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 51% of high schools in North Carolina
Median 634 · 611 schools compared
Larger than 61% 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
- Distant rural area
- Run by
- Polk County Schools
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Polk County Schools.
Location
- Address
- 1681 East NC 108 Hwy, Columbus, NC 28722
- Phone
- (828)894-2525
- County
- Polk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9–12 | 52 | 19.0 | |
| 9–12 | 526 | 12.8 | |
H. B. Swofford Career CenterCareer and technical | 10–12 | 0 | — |
Henderson County Career AcademyAlternative | 6–12 | 114 | 6.5 |
| 9–13 | 197 | 31.5 | |
| 9–12 | 932 | 15.3 |
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.
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