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Highlands School, Highlands, NC

Highlands School is a public school in Highlands, part of Macon County Schools. It enrolled 344 students in 2024-25, with 12.7 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
344
Teachers (FTE)
27.0
Students per teacher
12.7
Grades
K to 12

This school's ratio is 3.3 lower than the district figure of 16.0. The North Carolina average across schools is 16.3. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school12.7
District16.0
North Carolina16.3
United States15.3

School details

Address
545 Pierson Dr, Highlands, NC 28741
Phone
(828)526-2147
District
Macon County Schools
County
Macon County
Level
Other
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Locale
Rural: Remote
NCES school ID
370276001139
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
111
Reduced-price lunch
4
Free or reduced-price lunch
11533.4% 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 similar schools in Macon County Schools

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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.