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Magnet Schools in Durham County, North Carolina

Durham County has 7 schools identified in the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection as operating a magnet program. 4 are whole-school magnets, and 3 offer magnet programs to part of the student population.

  • 7 magnet schools and programs
  • 4 whole-school magnets
  • 3 schools with a magnet program

Magnet status is based on the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection, the latest federal collection available for magnet classification.

School enrollment, grades and contact details are from NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25.

Magnet schools in Durham County

Listed alphabetically. Nothing here is ranked, scored or ordered by anything the federal collections do not record.

What “magnet” means on this page

● Whole-school magnet

Whole-school magnet

The magnet program applies across the school. Every student attending is part of it.

◦ Magnet program

Magnet program

The school offers a magnet program to part of its student population, alongside its other classes.

Other schools listed in Durham County

These are the other schools this directory holds for Durham County. They are not identified as magnet schools in the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection.

Magnet schools elsewhere in North Carolina

All magnet schools in North Carolina

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