Academic and vocational courses are offered to prepare students for college entrance, enrollment in post-high school training in various fields, or entrance into the job market upon graduation. The school utilizes semester block scheduling with four ninety-minute classes per day, where students may earn eight units of credit per year. Our students attend school for one hundred eighty days, seven and a half hours per day. With test scores ranking thirteenth in the state, Croatan is a North Carolina “ School of Distinction ,” and is fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Our facility boasts forty classrooms, five science labs, twenty-two offices, two meeting rooms, and a gymnasium and a cafeteria. While at school, students are expected to maintain the highest standards of decorum. They are expected to dress appropriately for school. Extreme styles in clothing and grooming may be considered detrimental to the maintenance of discipline and morale of the school. The principal and his staff are responsible for determining and enforcing regulations governing proper dress and grooming of students.

We currently have seven hundred twenty two students enrolled. Of those, seventy-four percent are pursuing a college preparatory diploma, five percent are pursuing a college prep/college-tech prep diploma, four percent a career diploma and fifteen percent a tech prep diploma. Two percent of our students are involved in the occupational course of study. The curriculum of our students is rich and varied. Sixteen percent of our students are currently enrolled in Advanced Placement classes. The Academic and Intellectually Gifted program is currently serving almost twenty percent of our student body and our Exceptional Children’s program is reaching approximately sixteen percent of our population.

Located in the western portion of Carteret County, North Carolina, our school population comes to us from a wide geographic area. The students who attend Croatan High School live along Highway 58 from the Jones County line to the eastern limit of the Town of Emerald Isle; beginning on Highway 24 at the Onslow County line extending on the north side to the intersection of Highway 24 and Jeannie Lane, including all of Dutch Treat Mobile Home Park, and on the south side to Cedar Lane (the western entrance to Gull Harbor Subdivision), excluding all of Gull Harbor Subdivision; beginning at the intersection of Highway 24 and Nine Mile Road extending to the intersection of Nine Mile Road and Gales Creek Road; including all addresses accessible from Gales Creek Road and all roads connecting to Gales Creek Road. Croatan students are primarily bused to school, although many find private transportation. Daily school buses are provided by the state of North Carolina. Carteret County provides activity buses.

Our community is a tax-based economy dependent primarily on fishing and marine related industries, agriculture and tourism. Croatan High School has the privilege of partnering with NADEP (Naval Air Depot, Cherry Point) in the NADEP High School Early Experience Program. The program is designed for high school juniors interested in pursuing a two-year degree. They work at NADEP the summer after their junior and senior years. They then enroll at Craven Community College to pursue a degree in Aircraft Systems Technology-with tuition assistance. After graduating with that two-year degree, they are guaranteed a job at NADEP.

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