Cabarrus County Schools
Concord, NC · 44 schools · 34,810 students
Largest Schools
Schools ranked by enrollment. Proficiency data from EDFacts where available.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Cabarrus County Schools has 44 schools serving 34,810 students. The average proficiency rate across the district is 51%. The average graduation rate is 80%.
Cabarrus County Schools operates 44 public schools, including West Cabarrus High, Cox Mill High School, Hickory Ridge High, Central Cabarrus High, Harris Road Middle and others. The full school list is shown above with enrollment and grade-level details.
The average graduation rate across high schools in Cabarrus County Schools is approximately 80% (EDFacts district-level data, most recent reporting year). Individual school graduation rates may vary; this is a district-wide adjusted-cohort graduation rate.
The largest school in Cabarrus County Schools is West Cabarrus High with 1,833 students.
Cabarrus County Schools serves 34,810 students across 44 schools in NC, per the latest NCES Common Core of Data enrollment.
Cabarrus County Schools's average proficiency rate of 51% (math and reading combined, EDFacts) is around average for US public school districts. "Good" depends on what you value — proficiency is one signal; enrollment trends, class size, graduation rates, and district resources also matter. Check individual school pages for granular data.
Student-teacher ratios are reported at the school level by NCES, not aggregated at the district level in our dataset. Open any individual school page in Cabarrus County Schools to see its specific student-teacher ratio. The US national average is approximately 16:1 for public schools.
All data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (enrollment, school count, demographics) and EDFacts assessment results (proficiency rates, graduation rates). Proficiency and graduation rates are reported at the district level. Both are federal sources used by the US Department of Education.
School performance data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments.
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.