North Stokes High School

What North Stokes High School does

North Stokes High School is a public secondary school located at 1350 N Stokes School Rd in Danbury, North Carolina, operating as a component school of the Stokes County Schools public district. The school serves high school students and their families within its state-assigned attendance zone in rural Stokes County, delivering secondary education, college preparatory coursework, career exploration, driver's education, and ancillary services such as a cafeteria meal program. Its stated identity ("Small School, Big Dreams: Where Each Journey Begins") is built around a small-school environment with low student-to-teacher ratios that enable individualized academic support.

The school's operational technology footprint is assembled from a cloud-based educational platform ecosystem rather than proprietary systems: it runs on the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction's NCEDCLOUD student information system for grades, attendance, and administrative functions; uses Follett Destiny for library cataloging and circulation; DragonFly for student engagement and attendance tracking; Major Clarity for career and academic planning; and SchoolCashOnline for fee collection. Sandy Hook Promise's "Say Something" anonymous tip line is integrated for school safety reporting. The school also operates a 1:1 Chromebook device program for students.

North Stokes High School is not a commercial enterprise. It is a government-funded public educational institution supported by state and local appropriations with no tuition charged; revenue from ancillary fee-based services (cafeteria meals, driver's education, activity fees) is incidental. The school is governed by the Stokes County Schools district (district office at 100 Courthouse Circle, Danbury, NC), with community engagement handled primarily through an organic Facebook page and the district's centralized enrollment system. The entity has no private ownership, venture backing, or independent commercial revenue mechanics.

Name

North Stokes High School

Legal name

North Stokes High School

Website

https://north.stokes.k12.nc.us

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

North Stokes High School is a public secondary school in Danbury, North Carolina, serving rural Stokes County students with college preparatory coursework, career planning via Major Clarity, and a 1:1 Chromebook program under the Stokes County Schools district.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Danbury

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

North Stokes High School is a public secondary school that delivers in-person high school education, college preparatory coursework, and career planning services to students in rural Stokes County, North Carolina. As a component of the Stokes County Schools district, it provides standardized academic programs, driver's education, cafeteria services, and student support services, supplemented by third-party platforms for career exploration (Major Clarity), library access (Follett Destiny), and student information management (NCEDCLOUD, DragonFly MAX).

Product overview

North Stokes High School operates as a public high school offering educational programs and student services. The school's primary digital product offering includes Major Clarity, a career and academic planning platform that students use for course selection and career exploration. Additional services include Driver's Education and various administrative tools for enrollment, transcript requests, and cafeteria management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Major Clarity Career and Academic Planning Program

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• Sandy Hook PromisecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSchool partners with Sandy Hook Promise for the 'Say Something' tip reporting system, a violence prevention program enabling students to report safety concerns through an anonymous reporting system.
• Major Clarity (Career Planning Platform)coreTechnology or IntegrationMajor Clarity is a career planning and guidance platform integrated into the school's counseling and career services, helping students explore career pathways and college options.
• Follett Destiny (Library Management System)supportingTechnology or IntegrationFollett Destiny serves as the school's library management system for cataloging, circulation, and digital resource management.
• NCEDCLOUD (NC Department of Public Instruction)coreTechnology or IntegrationNCEDCLOUD is the North Carolina state cloud platform used for student information systems, grades, attendance, and administrative functions.
• DragonFly MAXsupportingTechnology or IntegrationDragonFly MAX is an attendance and student engagement platform used for tracking student participation and parent communications.
• SchoolCashOnlinesupportingTechnology or IntegrationOnline payment platform used for school fee collection including cafeteria meals, activity fees, and other school-related payments.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Others

• Apptegy: Vendor whose CMS platform powers the school's public website and parent communication tools (referenced as 'Powered By Apptegy' on the school homepage). Adjacent enabler of the school's digital presence and family engagement.
• North Carolina Department of Public Instruction: State agency that operates NCEDCLOUD and sets the regulatory and funding framework governing North Stokes High School. Highly relevant as the upstream policy/funding counterparty that determines the school's operating constraints.

Broad incumbents

• KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program): Large national charter management organization operating public charter schools with a college-prep mission. Comparable in mission (secondary education, college/career readiness) and use of career-planning tools, though structurally different (charter network vs. traditional district school).
• Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools: Large North Carolina public school district. Provides the broader state-level comparable for technology deployment, career-readiness programming, and public secondary education delivery within North Carolina.

Direct peers

• West Stokes High School: Third Stokes County Schools district high school serving the western attendance zone. Operates with the same district-provided technology, funding structure, and small-school public education model as North Stokes High School.
• South Stokes High School: Sibling high school within the same Stokes County Schools district serving the southern half of Stokes County, NC. Directly comparable in funding model, governance, technology stack (NCEDCLOUD, Follett Destiny), and small-rural high school positioning.
• Stokes County Schools (district): Parent district overseeing North Stokes High School and other schools. The district-level operating model (funding allocation, central services, ed-tech stack) is the immediate frame of reference for evaluating North Stokes High School's operations.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/officialnshs
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/school/north-stokes-high-school

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Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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