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Draughn High School, Valdese, NC

Draughn High School is a public high school in Valdese, part of Burke County Schools. It enrolled 661 students in 2024-25, with 27.5 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
661
Teachers (FTE)
24.0
Students per teacher
27.5
Grades
9 to 12

This school's ratio is 10.7 higher than the district figure of 16.8. The North Carolina average across schools is 16.3. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school27.5
District16.8
North Carolina16.3
United States15.3

School details

Address
709 Lovelady Road NE, Valdese, NC 28690
Phone
(828)879-4200
District
Burke County Schools
County
Burke County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Rural: Fringe
NCES school ID
370048002836
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
649
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
64998.2% 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 Burke County 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.