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High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12

Polk County Early College, Columbus, NC

Polk County Early College is a public high school in Columbus, part of Polk County Schools. It enrolled 52 students in 2024-25, with 26.0 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
52
Teachers (FTE)
2.0
Students per teacher
26.0
Grades
9 to 12

This school's ratio is 11.8 higher than the district figure of 14.2. The North Carolina average across schools is 16.3. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school26.0
District14.2
North Carolina16.3
United States15.3

School details

Address
1545 East NC 108 Hwy, Columbus, NC 28722
Phone
(828)894-2698
District
Polk County Schools
County
Polk County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Locale
Rural: Distant
NCES school ID
370372003006
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
49
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
4994.2% 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 Polk 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.