Case Study: Hoke County High School

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Hoke County High School has grades nine through twelve with course offerings ranging from mechanics to Advanced Placement Psychology, 27 clubs, and 21 sports. Hoke County High School’s population is over eighteen hundred students and it employs 120 teachers. There is one principal, one associate assistant principal, four assistant principals, and twenty-two office staff members at Hoke County High School.

Hoke County High is located in Hoke County in the rural town of Raeford, North Carolina. Hoke County is one of the fastest growing counties in the state of North Carolina because of the low tax base and close location to the largest Army military base in the United States of America. In the past few years, Hoke County has

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