High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12

Topsail High, Hampstead, NC

Topsail High is a public high school in Hampstead, part of Pender County Schools. It enrolled 1,945 students in 2024-25, with 29.5 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 1,945
Teachers (FTE): 66.0
Students per teacher: 29.5
Grades: 9 to 12

This school's ratio is 11.5 higher than the district figure of 18.0. The North Carolina average across schools is 16.3. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school29.5

District18.0

North Carolina16.3

United States15.3

School details

Address: 245 St. Johns Church Road, Hampstead, NC 28443
Phone: (910)270-2755
District: Pender County Schools
County: Pender County
Level: High
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Fringe
NCES school ID: 370357001469

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 446
Reduced-price lunch: 11
Free or reduced-price lunch: 45723.5% 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 Pender County Schools

Heide Trask High 732 students
Pender High 648 students
Pender Early College High 215 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.