High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12

Watauga High, Boone, NC

Watauga High is a public high school in Boone, part of Watauga County Schools. It enrolled 1,289 students in 2024-25, with 15.7 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 1,289
Teachers (FTE): 82.0
Students per teacher: 15.7
Grades: 9 to 12

This school's ratio is 1.8 higher than the district figure of 13.9. The North Carolina average across schools is 16.3. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school15.7

District13.9

North Carolina16.3

United States15.3

School details

Address: 300 Go Pioneers Drive, Boone, NC 28607
Phone: (828)264-2407
District: Watauga County Schools
County: Watauga County
Level: High
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Town: Distant
NCES school ID: 370483001943

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School meals

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

Free lunch: 384
Reduced-price lunch: 42
Free or reduced-price lunch: 42633.0% 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 Watauga County Schools

Watauga Innovation Academy 292 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.