Halifax County Schools (North Carolina)

In 1969, the North Carolina General Assembly had authorized the town of Scotland Neck to form its own school district.

The county system had struggled for many years with funding and school performance issues.

[1] That same year, out of the total student population, the gender ratio was 51% male to 49% female.

The demographic group makeup was: Black, 87%; American Indian, 6%; White, 5%; Hispanic, 2%; and Asian/Pacific Islander, 0% (two or more races: 1%).

[8] As of 2013[update] it, along with Weldon City Schools, has a student body that is almost all of races other than non-Hispanic white, while the student body of Roanoke Rapids Graded School District is 70% white.

The school system currently resides in the North Carolina State Board of Education's Third District.

The current members of the board are: Carolyn Hawkins, Claude Cooper (Chair), Joyce Lashley (Vice-Chair), Charles Hedgepeth, Tyus Few, James Davis III, and Susie Lynch-Evans.