High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12
Challenger Early College High, Hickory, NC
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 376
- Teachers (FTE)
- 11.0
- Students per teacher
- 34.2
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is 16.8 higher than the district figure of 17.4. 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
- 2550 Hwy 70 SE, Hickory, NC 28602
- Phone
- (828)485-2980
- District
- Catawba County Schools
- County
- Catawba County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Small
- NCES school ID
- 370069002753
School meals
- Free lunch
- 158
- Reduced-price lunch
- 28
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 18649.5% 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 Catawba County Schools
- Saint Stephens High 1,268 students
- Bandys High 935 students
- Fred T Foard High 930 students
- Maiden High 852 students
- Bunker Hill High 845 students
High schools elsewhere in Hickory
- Hickory High Hickory City Schools
- Hickory Career Arts Magnet High School Hickory City Schools
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.