Watauga High
Boone, NC · High School · Grades 9-12
Watauga High is a high school in Boone, NC with 1,272 students enrolled and a 65% proficiency rate. Part of Watauga County Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Watauga High is a high school located in Boone, North Carolina. The school serves 1,272 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 12.8:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 65% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 85% graduation rate.
33% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Watauga High is part of the Watauga County Schools in North Carolina.
How This School Compares
Watauga High has 1,272 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Watauga County Schools (432 students). Its 65% proficiency rate is 14 percentage points above the district average of 51%. Compared to the North Carolina state average of 43%, the school performs 22 points higher. With a 12.8:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Watauga High has 1,272 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 12.8:1.
According to EDFacts data, 65% of students at Watauga High meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Watauga High has a 85% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Watauga High is part of the Watauga County Schools in Boone, North Carolina. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
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.
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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.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.