Chapel Hill NC School System

Welcome to Chapel Hill, North Carolina: a town known for its beauty and diversity, the University of North Carolina's Chapel Hill campus, and close proximity to commercial centers like Research Triangle Park. If you're considering relocating to the area and you've got school-age children, it helps to know a bit about the Chapel Hill, NC school system.

Chapel Hill/Carrboro City Schools, or CHCCS, is one of two public school systems in Orange County, NC. The district is comprised of nine elementary schools, four middle schools, and two high schools.  Combined, these schools currently serve about 10,000 students.

The Chapel Hill/Carrboro City Schools are renowned for the quality of education provided to their students.  As Chapel Hill is one of the most highly educated communities in North Carolina - indeed, in the United States - it stands to reason that the academic standards for the school district would be high, and CHCCS students and educators continue to perform beyond expectation. The school system ranks among the top 37 districts in the nation, and Chapel Hill High School was named one of the top 10 high schools in America by the Wall Street Journal.

Students at Chapel Hill/Carrboro schools consistently place higher in standardized tests, including the SATs.  Chapel Hill High School also boasts a greater percentage of students who take the SATs, as compared to other state and national high schools, and features one of the nation's lowest high school dropout rates (just 1.25 percent).  A higher-than-average percentage of the faculty employed by the Chapel Hill, NC school system possess Masters or Doctorate degrees.

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