Best High Schools in North Carolina for African American Students

Check out our new feature available only on SchoolDigger: rankings for different groups of students in North Carolina!

Every year, the North Carolina Dept of Public Instruction shares test results for various student groups in each school. We use these results to find out which schools do best for each group and list them from the best to the worst.

Additionally, we also compare the performance of the subgroup to the performance of the school as a whole. This makes it easy to see if, for example, African American students are overperforming or underperforming their peers in each school.

JUST IN! North Carolina EOC test scores and updated rankings for the 2022-23 school year were recently posted to SchoolDigger!

Year after year, SchoolDigger is always the first to publish North Carolina test scores and rankings. Other sites use stale test score data that are several years old! Be in the know with the very latest performance metrics.

School															Students/Teachers											Per Pupil Expenditures (2019)							Ranking (African American vs All Students - 2023)
ID	Rank (of 434)	School	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Disc Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Per Pupil Expenditures: Total	Personnel from Federal Funds	Non-Personnel from Federal Funds	Total from Federal Funds	Personnel from State and Local Funds	Non-Personnel from State and Local Funds	Total from State and Local Funds	Statewide Rank Percentile (African American)	Statewide Rank Percentile (All Students)	Rank Percentile Difference from All Students	SchoolDigger Rating (African American)	SchoolDigger Rating (All Students)
370162002521	1	Highland School of Technology	Public, Magnet	9-12	1600 N Morris Street	Gastonia	28052	Gaston County	Gaston County Schools	No	Yes	No	No	(704) 810-8816	533	40	13.4	19.9%	339 (63.6%)	73 (13.7%)	70 (13.1%)	30 (5.6%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	21 (3.9%)	$10,033			$715			$9,318	99.8%		(n/a)%
370192003242	2	STEM Early College @ NC A&T SU	Public	9-12	402 Laurel Street	Greensboro	27411	Guilford County	Guilford County Schools	No	No	No	No	(336) 370-8580	192	9	20.8	11.5%	49 (25.5%)	72 (37.5%)	10 (5.2%)	44 (22.9%)	1 (0.5%)	1 (0.5%)	15 (7.8%)	$10,069			$194			$9,874	99.5%	99.7%	0.14%
370465003024	3	Vance County Early College	Public	9-12	200 Community College Rd	Henderson	27537	Vance County	Vance County Schools	No	No	No	No	(252) 738-3580	208	8	26	98.6%	41 (19.7%)	90 (43.3%)	63 (30.3%)	5 (2.4%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	9 (4.3%)	$7,695			$428			$7,267	99.3%	91.4%	7.93%
370001102757	4	Cumberland Polytechnic	Public	9-12	2201 Hull Rd	Fayetteville	28303	Cumberland County	Cumberland County Schools	No	No	No	No	(910) 486-7300	268	12	22.3	39.2%	92 (34.3%)	103 (38.4%)	35 (13.1%)	6 (2.2%)	3 (1.1%)	3 (1.1%)	26 (9.7%)	$8,770			$513			$8,257	99.1%	96.6%	2.43%
370180003142	5	Granville Early College High	Public	9-12	1552 South Campus Dr	Creedmoor	27522	Granville County	Granville County Schools	No	No	No	No	(919) 528-5583	231	8	30.5	19.0%	111 (48.1%)	53 (22.9%)	57 (24.7%)	3 (1.3%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	7 (3.0%)	$7,932			$277			$7,655	98.8%	98.1%	0.76%
370387002916	6	Richmond Early College High	Public	9-12	1042 W Hamlet Ave	Hamlet	28345	Richmond County	Richmond County Schools	No	No	No	No	(910) 410-1922	292	11	26.8	99.0%	153 (52.4%)	47 (16.1%)	66 (22.6%)	5 (1.7%)	9 (3.1%)	0 (0.0%)	12 (4.1%)	$6,338			$528			$5,810	98.6%	97.8%	0.85%
370001203476	7	Innovation Early College High	Public	9-12	East Carolina University	Greenville	27858	Pitt County	Pitt County Schools	No	No	No	Yes	(252) 737-3860	195	11	18.3	97.9%	64 (32.8%)	56 (28.7%)	49 (25.1%)	12 (6.2%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	14 (7.2%)	$11,291			$335			$10,955	98.4%	97.9%	0.46%
370033003011	8	Beaufort County Early College High	Public	9-12	5337 Hwy 264 East	Washington	27889	Beaufort County	Beaufort County Schools	No	No	No	No	(252) 940-6227	281	8	35.1	40.9%	117 (41.6%)	57 (20.3%)	94 (33.5%)	1 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	12 (4.3%)	$6,887			$372			$6,515	98.2%	98.9%	0.73%
370472003192	9	Wake STEM Early College High School	Public	9-12	2205 Walnut Street	Cary	27518	Wake County	Wake County Schools	No	No	No	No	(919) 694-8130	252	15	16.6	13.9%	111 (44.0%)	42 (16.7%)	50 (19.8%)	38 (15.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	11 (4.4%)	$10,774			$232			$10,542	97.9%	95.5%	2.40%
370162003563	10	Gaston Early College of Medical Sciences	Public	9-12	300 Rhodes Perimeter Drive	Dallas	28034	Gaston County	Gaston County Schools	No	No	No	No	(704) 923-8480	79	7	11.2	29.1%	37 (46.8%)	13 (16.5%)	14 (17.7%)	8 (10.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	7 (8.9%)								97.7%	98.4%	0.71%

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About our rankings:

Schooldigger calculates school rankings based on EOC Biology, EOC English II, EOC Math I, EOC Math III test scores released by the North Carolina Dept of Public Instruction.
These rankings were last updated on September 6, 2023, and are based on the most recent test scores available. We update rankings as we receive new test scores from the North Carolina Dept of Public Instruction, usually on a yearly basis.
Our sources of data include the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education and the North Carolina Dept of Public Instruction.
For more information about our ranking process, please see our Ranking FAQ. Details about our methodology are here.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the North Carolina Dept of Public Instruction. School Attendance Areas provided by ATTOM.