Summary:
Moncure, North Carolina is served by a single public school, Moncure School, a K-8 school within Chatham County Schools that enrolls 176 students in a high-poverty area, with 98.3% eligible for free/reduced-price lunch. The school offers a favorable 13:1 student-teacher ratio and per-pupil spending of $11,877, but chronic absenteeism sits at 23.4% — slightly above the district rate of 21.4%. Its state ranking has been remarkably stable in the middle of the pack, placing 758th out of 1,492 schools (49th percentile, 2 stars) in 2025-26, after rankings of 837th and 795th in the prior two years.
Academically, Moncure School is above state averages in math, reading, and science overall, but its strongest results are in the middle grades: 8th grade science hit 90.5% proficiency, 6th grade math reached 87.5%, and 7th grade reading and math both landed at 73.3% — all well above district and state levels. The school's biggest concerns are in early elementary grades: 4th grade math proficiency was just 23.8% versus a district rate of 68.1%, and 4th grade reading was 47.6% versus 62.5% in the district. Fifth grade science is also a persistent weakness, sitting at 60.0% compared to the district's 76.7%.
Because the school has only about 20 students per grade, proficiency rates can swing dramatically from year to year. For instance, 8th grade science jumped from 61.9% to 90.5%, while 4th grade math fell from 52.4% to 23.8%, so these numbers should be interpreted cautiously. That said, the overall trend is positive: the school improved across all three subjects in 2025-26 compared to the previous year, moved from the 44th to the 49th percentile statewide, and closed much of the gap with its strong 4-star district. The school's reading performance is now nearly identical to the district average, and its science performance exceeds it — a notable achievement given that nearly all students come from low-income households.
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