Regular local school district · Lee County
Lee County Schools, NC: schools, enrollment and spending
Lee County Schools runs 16 public schools with 9,168 students in grades PK to 13. Its ratio of 16.0 students per teacher is about the same as the North Carolina figure of 16.3.
At a glance
- Schools
- 16
- Students
- 9,168
- Teachers (FTE)
- 572
- Students per teacher
- 16.0
- NC: 16.3 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 106 Gordon St, Sanford, NC 27330
- Phone
- (919)774-6226
- County
- Lee County
- Locale
- Town: Distant
- Grades offered
- PK to 13
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 3702560
- State district ID
- NC-530
- School counselors (FTE)
- 26.0About 353 students per counselor.
Students per teacher compared
This district16.0
North Carolina16.3
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (9,482), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $103.2 million
- Federal revenue
- $13.7 million
- State revenue
- $67.5 million
- Local revenue
- $22.0 million
- Total spending
- $99.4 million
- Spending per pupil
- $10,479
- Salaries
- $57.2 million57.6% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $46.9 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 13.2%
- State: 65.4%
- Local: 21.3%
North Carolina overall
- Federal: 12.1%
- State: 61.7%
- Local: 26.2%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$10,479
North Carolina$11,869
United States$16,826
Schools in Lee County Schools
By level: 4 high, 3 middle, 8 elementary, 1 other. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Bragg Street Academy | High | 6 to 12 | 40 | 6.7 |
| Broadway Elementary | Elementary | PK to 5 | 490 | 15.8 |
| BT Bullock Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 511 | 15.5 |
| Deep River Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 557 | 16.4 |
| East Lee Middle | Middle | 6 to 8 | 526 | 15.5 |
| Floyd L Knight Children Center | Other | PK to 12 | 95 | 7.9 |
| Greenwood Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 571 | 15.0 |
| J Glenn Edwards Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 587 | 16.8 |
| J R Ingram Jr Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 419 | 14.0 |
| Lee County High | High | 9 to 12 | 1,459 | 20.0 |
| Lee Early College | High | 9 to 13 | 272 | 45.3 |
| SanLee Middle School | Middle | 6 to 8 | 792 | 15.5 |
| Southern Lee High School | High | 9 to 12 | 1,180 | 21.1 |
| Tramway Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 559 | 14.3 |
| WB Wicker Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 588 | 14.3 |
| West Lee Middle | Middle | 6 to 8 | 522 | 13.7 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Lee County
- Ascend Leadership Academy: Lee County 655 students
- Central Carolina Academy 536 students
- Rising Leaders Academy 282 students
More in North Carolina
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.