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East Columbus Junior-Senior High, Lake Waccamaw, NC

East Columbus Junior-Senior High is a public high school in Lake Waccamaw, part of Columbus County Schools. It enrolled 576 students in 2024-25, with 17.5 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
576
Teachers (FTE)
33.0
Students per teacher
17.5
Grades
7 to 12

This school's ratio is 1.8 higher than the district figure of 15.7. The North Carolina average across schools is 16.3. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school17.5
District15.7
North Carolina16.3
United States15.3

School details

Address
32 Gator Lane, Lake Waccamaw, NC 28450
Phone
(910)646-4094
District
Columbus County Schools
County
Columbus County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Rural: Distant
NCES school ID
370096000145
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
573
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
57399.5% 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 Columbus County Schools

High schools elsewhere in Lake Waccamaw

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.