Piedmont High
Monroe, NC·Public·Rural, near a city·Union County Public Schools
Dual enrollment in North Carolina
College credit earned while still in high school. It is the single largest lever on a college bill, and what it costs your family depends almost entirely on which state you are in.
The state covers dual-enrolment tuition, so college credit earned in high school costs your family little or nothing.
Career and College Promise (CCP)
Free
Tuition for CCP college courses is paid by the North Carolina General Assembly, so the family pays $0 tuition across all CCP pathways. Student FEES and TEXTBOOKS are NOT automatically covered - NCDPI states these may be paid in a variety of ways (by the college, the district, or the family) and directs families to ask their school counselor how those costs are handled locally. No statewide dollar figure for fees or books is published.
Who can enroll. Open to currently enrolled North Carolina high school students - including home school and private school students - who meet the eligibility criteria for their chosen pathway; students who have already graduated are not eligible. The NC Community College System markets CCP to students in 9th through 12th grade. Continuing eligibility requires making progress toward high school graduation and maintaining a 2.0 GPA in all college coursework; counselors or principals must confirm eligibility before enrollment. Pathways are College Transfer, Career and Technical Education, Cooperative Innovative High Schools (early colleges, which admit rising 9th graders and set their own criteria), and Career and College Ready. The program covers North Carolina community colleges and, for some pathways, UNC System universities - it does not cover private or out-of-state colleges.
Anchored on 56 public colleges in North Carolina · verified 2026-07-31.
Community colleges in North Carolina
We do not hold map coordinates for this school, so these are the largest community colleges in the state rather than the closest ones. Check the drive before you plan around any of them. Open one to see what starting there and transferring would actually save.
- Wake Technical Community CollegeRaleigh, NC$2,254in-state / yr
- Central Piedmont Community CollegeCharlotte, NC$2,792in-state / yr
- Cape Fear Community CollegeWilmington, NC$2,748in-state / yr
- Fayetteville Technical Community CollegeFayetteville, NC$2,628in-state / yr
- Guilford Technical Community CollegeJamestown, NC$2,320in-state / yr
Scholarships only this school's students can win
Awards in our corpus that name this high school. Smaller applicant pools than anything national - often by orders of magnitude.
Results
State assessments, 2021. Reported by EDFacts as ranges rather than exact figures, to keep small cohorts from being identifiable.
| Year | Math | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 75% | 65% |
| 2019 | 76% | 60% |
| 2018 | 1% | 62% |
Who goes here
36% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That figure is also the federal shorthand for family income, and it is what most need-based aid and fee waivers key on.
Outside of class
Activities colleges actually read on an application - and where to find them near this school. Depth in one or two beats a list of ten.
Plan from here
Directory, enrollment and staffing from the NCES Common Core of Data; proficiency and graduation from EDFacts. Dual-enrollment funding rules from state policy, verified on our last review. Figures change - confirm with the school before relying on one. NCES record