High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12
Bessemer City High, Bessemer City, NC
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 590
- Teachers (FTE)
- 31.0
- Students per teacher
- 19.0
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is 3.1 higher than the district figure of 15.9. The North Carolina average across schools is 16.3. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 119 Yellow Jacket Lane, Bessemer City, NC 28016
- Phone
- (704)836-9601
- District
- Gaston County Schools
- County
- Gaston County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 370162000668
School meals
- Free lunch
- 587
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 58799.5% of enrollment.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other high schools in Gaston County Schools
- Ashbrook High 1,386 students
- Hunter Huss High 1,165 students
- Forestview High 1,133 students
- North Gaston High 1,061 students
- South Point High 989 students
- Stuart W Cramer High 953 students
- East Gaston High 917 students
- Highland Sch of Technology 538 students
- Cherryville High 484 students
- Gaston Early College High School 235 students
- Warlick Academy 175 students
- Gaston Early College of Medical Sciences 174 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.