About New Hanover County Schools
New Hanover County Schools is a public school system serving New Hanover County, North Carolina, based in Wilmington. It serves 25,155 students across 42 schools spanning PreK–13, and is classified as a city: mid-size district. By enrollment it is the #12 largest of North Carolina’s 334 school systems.
Size and structure
New Hanover County Schools enrolls 25,155 students in 42 schools — an average of about 599 students per school. It serves grades PreK–13 and ranks #12 of 334 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in New Hanover County Schools, from the NCES Common Core of Data (25,155 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
New Hanover County Schools employs about 1,650 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 15.2:1 — below the North Carolina average of about 16.0:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes.
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 New Hanover 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 New Hanover 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 New Hanover County Schools in the free Cognia registry.
New Hanover County Schools vs. North Carolina
See every North Carolina district side by side in the North Carolina directory.
Look up New Hanover 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):