High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12
Enka High, Candler, NC
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 1,051
- Teachers (FTE)
- 63.0
- Students per teacher
- 16.7
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is 1.6 higher than the district figure of 15.1. 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
- 475 Enka Lake Road, Candler, NC 28715
- Phone
- (828)670-5000
- District
- Buncombe County Schools
- County
- Buncombe County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 370045000147
School meals
- Free lunch
- 1,048
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 1,04899.7% 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 Buncombe County Schools
- Roberson High 1,479 students
- Reynolds High 1,169 students
- Erwin High 1,013 students
- North Buncombe High 896 students
- Owen High 649 students
- Nesbitt Discovery Academy 372 students
- Early College 271 students
- Community High School 127 students
- Center for Career Innovation 41 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.