About Us

In the early 1900s, and perhaps even earlier, rural public schools were the center of community life in Pitt County and across North Carolina. As the schools consolidated, communities grew larger.

Around 1919-1920, the Jones one-room school (east of Pactolus on the Grimesland Road) and the Webb School (also known as Sunny Vee, near Ward's Bridge) were consolidated. Children from these communities began to be bused to Pactolus.

In October 1947, the Pactolus School—the community's pride—was destroyed by a disastrous fire. A new building was constructed, but due to insufficient funds, it initially lacked an auditorium. Though the auditorium was added two years later, the delay cost the community thousands of dollars. Notably, the bricks from the burned Pactolus High School were cleaned and reused in the construction of the present school.

Following the Supreme Court's decision to integrate schools in 1954, Pactolus began drawing African-American students from the Stokes and G.R. Whitfield Schools in Stokes and Grimesland.