Skip to content
BCER

Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Hiwassee Dam Middle, Murphy, NC

Hiwassee Dam Middle is a public middle school in Murphy, part of Cherokee County Schools. It enrolled 122 students in 2024-25, with 13.6 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
122
Teachers (FTE)
9.0
Students per teacher
13.6
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is 1.1 lower than the district figure of 14.7. The North Carolina average across schools is 16.3. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school13.6
District14.7
North Carolina16.3
United States15.3

School details

Address
337 Blue Eagle Circle, Murphy, NC 28906
Phone
(828)644-5115
District
Cherokee County Schools
County
Cherokee County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Rural: Remote
NCES school ID
370078000319
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
118
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
11896.7% 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 middle schools in Cherokee 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.