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Specialty School Programs
AP Programs Offered
IB Programs Offered
Free/Reduced Lunch Offered
Athletics Program
Colleges Students are Considering
Students are most interested in or go on to attend these colleges.
Western Carolina University213 Students
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill107 Students
North Carolina State University89 Students
Appalachian State University85 Students
University of North Carolina at Charlotte69 Students
Southwestern Community College - North Carolina62 Students
University of North Carolina - Greensboro52 Students
Clemson University49 Students
Wake Forest University49 Students
East Carolina University44 Students
What Students Want to Study
Niche users from this school are most interested in the following majors.
Nursing38 Students
Business35 Students
Biology28 Students
Psychology26 Students
Pre-Medicine Studies20 Students
Marketing13 Students
Criminology13 Students
Forensic Science and Technology13 Students
Pre-Law Studies12 Students
Elementary Education12 Students
This School’s Reviews
Niche Reviews
3.671 Reviews
4.0Alum
6/4/2024
For the most part, I enjoyed my time at Smoky Mountain High School. It does lack when it comes to academic opportunities but they try to offset that by offering out of school opportunities when it comes to things like dual enrollment.
5.0Senior
6/3/2022
Best time ever. Even though most of it was taken away from us. I made new friends and rekindled with old ones and I also loss some. But they helped us though it especially at the end because a former student died and a nother student died. They helped us emotionally.
3.0Senior
8/31/2021
It's ok, nothing really special about it. No school spirit, administration doesn't really care, nothing ever changes, which makes it stuck in the past and unable to move forward.
Wouldn't have wanted to spend the last 4 years anywhere else. Smoky Mountain is a great school, filled with more school spirit than any school I have ever seen. We are well known for having the best basketball "student-section" in Western North Carolina, if not the whole state. Academically, I would...
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