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Pine Forest High

Fayetteville, NC 28311

Phone: (910) 488-2384
Fax: (910) 488-0790
District: Cumberland County School District

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public • Grades 9,10,11,12 • 1526 students

Pine Forest High, a public school located in Fayetteville, NC, serves grades 9-12 in the Cumberland County School District.It has received a GreatSchools Rating of 7 out of 10, based on a variety of school quality measures.

Pine Forest High is a public school located in Fayetteville, NC. 1526 students attend Pine Forest High.

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Category	Rating	Details
Test Scores	7/10	The Test Score Rating examines how students at this school performed on standardized tests compared with other schools in the state. The Test Rating was created using 2025 North Carolina End-of-Course Tests data from North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, and using 2025 North Carolina End-of-Grade Tests data from North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
College Readiness	4/10	The College Readiness Rating uses this high school's graduation rates, college entrance exam participation and performance, or AP, IB, or Dual Enrollment participation to determine how well schools are preparing students for success in college and beyond. The College Readiness Rating was created using the following data from the 2021 Civil Rights Data Collection: percentage of students enrolled in IB, AP or Dual Enrollment classes in grades 9-12, using 2025 4-year high school graduation rate data from North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, using 2025 Average ACT score data from North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, using 2025 ACT percent college ready data from North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, and using 2025 demographic data from North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
Student Growth	10/10	The Student Progress Rating measures whether students at this school are making academic progress over time based on student growth data provided by the Department of Education. Specifically, this rating looks at how much progress individual students have made on state assessments during the past year or more, how this performance aligns with expected progress based on a student growth model established by the state Department of Education, and how this school's growth data compares to other schools in the state. The Growth Rating was created using 2024 Student growth data from North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.

Posted: August 29, 2022

First day of school they made a typo on the bus schedule. The scheduled bus was 771 when the bus that picked us up was 770. The last few minutes of school the announcement said the bus was changed to bus #211 but when we got on the bus driver said it was for bus 751 not 771. The teachers lied and said it pulled of when we was on the sidewalk but not of the buses said 770 and they was then ones that said it was changed to 211. The school is horrible and nothing good comes up with it.

Posted: November 13, 2021

The culture and atmosphere in this school is among the worst in the nation. As a former student who had to move often due to military parents I attended 7 total schools growing up I have seen great, good, and bad. This was the worst of the 7 of which 3 were high schools. PFHS looks and feels like a prison. The environment within the school only further supports this. It is why to the students it is often referred to as Pine-fortress Petitionary. If you are able to avoid this school for your children they will never know the depths you have gone to protect them.

Posted: November 13, 2021

Posted: November 21, 2017

Its a good school, but when it comes to bullying the principles arent that effective as they should be

Posted: November 21, 2017

Posted: September 17, 2017

My review is based on my daughter. She started at the school her freshman year and Graduated with honors 2017. We really liked the school and the guidance counselors seemed to really help the kids with college readiness.

Posted: January 1, 2017

Ok.. While the general staff here at PF are pretty nice and suitable for what they do, the environment itself in the school is just quite sad. I don't know whether it's the teachers or the students not being disciplined or having stressful times going to this school and personal issues, but the school is not great. It sure is functional, and you can go and say that many successful people will have graduated from here, but, I don't see how you can do that in this environment that there is. (Unless if you're special, had little to no stress and anxiety out of school, or were just really good at working hard) I am NOT comfortable going to this school. "School". Another thing.. I feel like in this day n' age, schools have become more of a hinderence than a stepping stool. I feel as time goes on, and the more that technology and minds advance, we won't need schools. Well at least not the kind of school system we have now. I've learned things that I learned from technology, experiences, and living, than I have from school. One thing that I know most students can relate to, is that we have all become depression-anxiety-ridden.

Posted: November 29, 2016

Very pleased with school and administration. Pine Forest really cares about the students. Both of my children are happy and have thrived here.

Posted: November 7, 2016

Very involved, effective administration. Puts students needs first!

Posted: November 7, 2016

I have two sons at PFHS, the school has a real feel of community. David Culbreth is an excellent administrator and takes time to get to know his students. His door is always open to his students and staff. You will be hard pressed to find a better school and better principal in Cumberland County.

Posted: August 17, 2015

My review will be based from my daughter who graduated in 2013. It's long overdue but I would like to commend the school's counselors. Most especially to Ms Janet Turner who had been patient with my daughter throughout the college process. My eldest Is now doing her best at one of the best public universities In the U.S.A. At present, Ms Turner is still patiently working on with my youngest daughter's concerns. As parents, we truly appreciate the effort and guidance. Looking forward to another fruitful student-teacher-counselor relationships. More power to the administration.

Posted: January 24, 2014

My kids have gone to Pine Forest Middle and Pine Forest HIgh. Very good schools, good office staff, good teacher comunication. No major fights like Overhills. VERY good I think.

Posted: October 6, 2013

My daughter been at PFHS for four years and now a senior. I give ms Jane field a 10 on turning pine forest high around. I have nothing but good things to say about th school. If i had another child I would send them to PFSH also. If you are a parent you have to do your part with the teacher. thing starts at home first because I am a old school parent. stop doing things in front of your kids and be a parent. If you don't have anything to say good don't say anything at all especially if you are not doing your part

Posted: August 9, 2013

This is my third year at Pine Forest High School and so far I am pleased with my experience. There are many great extra curricular activities such as SGA, DECA, Trojan Terror and Trojan Mentors. They offer a good variety of AP classes and have teachers who truly want to see kids enjoy class and grow. Of course there are some areas that could use some improving, but overall I would say that PFHS has given me the knowledge to succeed in my later years.

Posted: October 19, 2012

This school has a very on the ball Principal "Jane Fields", she has a brilliant vision on how to fix whats not working for the school and she enhances was is working for the school she has a zero tolerance of foolishness but deals with it head on if and when it arises she has a understanding staff that knows when they get out of line she will be very professional in her discipline. The school has a awesome come up with their academics Biology,Math, English teams meet with her to find better challenges on how the students can just continously maintain excellence you may can't get the all but the press hard for excellence PFHS you have my 5 stars.

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#	Name	Type	City	State	Distance
1	Patriot Park Village	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Fayetteville	NC	0.5 mi
2	Inverness	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Fayetteville	NC	0.8 mi
3	Kinwood	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Fayetteville	NC	1.4 mi
4	Kings Grant	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Fayetteville	NC	1.5 mi
5	College Lakes	Area of Town	Fayetteville	NC	1.5 mi
6	Stonegate Apartments	Apartment Complex	Spring Lake	NC	4.5 mi
7	Castlebrooke	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Linden	NC	5 mi
8	Ellerslie Subdivision	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Fayetteville	NC	5.1 mi
9	Deerfield	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Spring Lake	NC	6.2 mi
10	Haymount	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Fayetteville	NC	7 mi
11	Westwood	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Fayetteville	NC	7.3 mi
12	Overhills Creek	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Spring Lake	NC	7.7 mi
13	The Preserve At Grand Oaks	Apartment Complex	Fayetteville	NC	8.3 mi
14	Stone Creek Subdivision	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Fayetteville	NC	9 mi
15	Anderson Creek Club	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Spring Lake	NC	10.5 mi
16	Forest Ridge	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Cameron	NC	10.5 mi
17	Brookshire	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Fayetteville	NC	10.8 mi
18	Forest Oaks	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Bunnlevel	NC	11.3 mi

#	Name	City	State	Distance
1	North Ramsey Road	Fayetteville	NC	3.7 mi
2	Eastwood Ave & Kentberry Ct.	Fayetteville	NC	4.1 mi
3	Spring Lake by Ft Bragg Base	Spring Lake	NC	4.9 mi
4	Spring Lake	Spring Lake	NC	5.3 mi
5	Center of Fayetteville	Fayetteville	NC	7 mi
6	Fayetteville	Fayetteville	NC	7 mi
7	Vander	Vander	NC	9.9 mi

Base	Distance
Pope Field	6.3 mi.
Fort Bragg	15.2 mi.
Camp Mackall	35.5 mi.
Raleigh National Guard	46.4 mi.

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