Columbus County Schools
Key statistics
Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.
Students
By grade
- Pre-K 232
- Kindergarten 354
- Grade 1 368
- Grade 2 383
- Grade 3 406
- Grade 4 377
- Grade 5 386
- Grade 6 379
- Grade 7 420
- Grade 8 394
- Grade 9 457
- Grade 10 454
- Grade 11 389
- Grade 12 420
- Grade 13 21
By race/ethnicity
- White 50%
- Black or African American 27%
- Hispanic/Latino 13%
- Two or more races 6%
- American Indian or Alaska Native 4%
- Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%
- Asian <1%
Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.
Free and reduced-price lunch
- Free lunch 99%
- Reduced-price lunch 0%
Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.
Spending and revenue
Spending per student
- Instruction $7,883
- Support services $4,638
- Other (food service, etc.) $995
Where the money comes from
- Local 15%
- State 60%
- Federal 25%
Total revenue $76.5 milliontotal spending $77.6 million
Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.
District details
Grades served
PK to 13
Locale (NCES)
Rural: Distant
Total staff (FTE)
821
District office
2586 James B. White Hwy North, Whiteville NC 28472
Phone
County
Columbus County
Official website
NCES District ID
3700960
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About Columbus County Schools
Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.