High · North Carolina

Tar River Academy

Alternative

Tar River Academy, a public high school in Rocky Mount, North Carolina: grades 9–12, 74 students, 12.4 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Nash County 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: 74
Teachers (FTE): 6.0
Students per teacher: 12.4
Grades: 9–12; High

Fewer students per teacher than 88% of high schools in North Carolina

Median 18.4 · 604 schools compared

Fewer students per teacher than 65% of high schools in the US

Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared

Smaller than 92% of high schools in North Carolina

Median 634 · 611 schools compared

Smaller than 85% 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 · Alternative
Instruction: In person
Area: Small city
Run by: Nash County Public Schools

Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Nash County Public Schools.

Location

Address: 906 Hammond Street, Rocky Mount, NC 27804
Phone: (252)451-2875
City or town: Rocky Mount
County: Nash County

Website Quality of life in Rocky Mount Schools in Rocky Mount

Nearby high schools

The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.

School	Grades	Students	Students / teacher
EDGE Academy of Health Sciences	9–11	75	19.9	0.8 mi
Rocky Mount High	9–12	1,023	23.9	1.5 mi
Nash Central High	9–12	703	21.8	5.1 mi
NRM Early College High School	9–13	376	30.5	5.6 mi
CITI High School	9–13	87	16.0	5.7 mi
Northern Nash High	9–12	1,035	24.7	6.1 mi

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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