About Gates County Schools
Gates County Schools is a public school system serving Gates County, North Carolina, based in Gatesville. It serves 1,410 students across 5 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a rural: remote district. By enrollment it is the #122 largest of North Carolina’s 334 school systems.
Size and structure
Gates County Schools enrolls 1,410 students in 5 schools — an average of about 282 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #122 of 334 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Gates County Schools, from the NCES Common Core of Data (1,410 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Gates County Schools employs about 88 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 16.0:1 — above the North Carolina average of about 16.0:1.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How North Carolina funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Gates County Schools are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
North Carolina assigns A–F School Performance Grades and publishes them through the NC School Report Cards, combining achievement and growth with graduation, test results and demographics. Look up Gates County Schools on the NC School Report Cards.
Accreditation status
North Carolina does not require statewide accreditation of its public districts; accreditation is voluntary, and districts that pursue it generally work with Cognia, the de facto K-12 accreditor. Look up Gates County Schools in the free Cognia registry.
Gates County Schools vs. North Carolina
See every North Carolina district side by side in the North Carolina directory.
Look up Gates County Schools’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):