About Hickory City Schools
Hickory City Schools is a public school system serving Catawba County, North Carolina, based in Hickory. It serves 3,735 students across 9 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a city: small district. By enrollment it is the #75 largest of North Carolina’s 334 school systems.
Size and structure
Hickory City Schools enrolls 3,735 students in 9 schools — an average of about 415 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #75 of 334 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Hickory City Schools, from the NCES Common Core of Data (3,735 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
Hickory City Schools employs about 215 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 17.4:1 — 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 Hickory City 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 Hickory City 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 Hickory City Schools in the free Cognia registry.
Hickory City Schools vs. North Carolina
See every North Carolina district side by side in the North Carolina directory.
Look up Hickory City 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):