Summary:
Zip code 28726 contains exactly one high school: East Henderson High, a comprehensive grades 9–12 school in East Flat Rock, North Carolina, serving 932 students and part of the Henderson County Schools district. The school has a 15.2:1 student-teacher ratio, and about 62.7% of its students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On SchoolDigger, East Henderson currently sits near the middle of North Carolina high schools, ranking in the 49th percentile with 2 stars, while its district is a 4-star system in the 70th percentile statewide.
Academically, East Henderson exceeds the state proficiency average in two of four End-of-Course subjects. Biology proficiency is 64.6%, 6.1 points above the state, and Math I is 54.1%, a full 12 points above the state average. Math III nearly matches the state (64.3% vs. 68.9%), but English II is the clear weak spot at 57.8%, compared to 64.6% statewide. The school trails its district in every tested subject, most dramatically in English II, where it falls 14.7 points behind Henderson County. Its graduation rate is solid at 92.6%, above the state's 88.8%, and chronic absenteeism is an impressive 14.4%, far below the state's 24.2% average.
Year-over-year results show strong gains in Biology and Math III, with Biology proficiency jumping 14.8 points and Math III rising 7.1 points. English II proficiency, however, was essentially flat, and because the district and state both improved, that gap widened. East Henderson's SchoolDigger rank has fluctuated from the 43rd to the 52nd and back to the 49th percentile over three years, leaving it on the edge of the top half of North Carolina high schools. For parents, East Henderson offers strong math and science outcomes, low absenteeism, and an above-average graduation rate despite a majority low-income student population, making literacy instruction its clearest area for improvement.
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