Summary:
Stallings, North Carolina is served by a single public school — Stallings Elementary, a K-5 school in Union County Public Schools — and that school happens to be a standout. Stallings Elementary enrolls 766 students and has earned 5-star ratings in every reported year from 2023-24 through 2025-26. In the most recent rankings (2025-26), it placed 137th out of 1,492 North Carolina schools, putting it in the 91st percentile statewide. The school's home district, Union County Public Schools, is itself a strong 4-star district, ranked 43rd out of 246 districts in North Carolina.
Academic proficiency at Stallings Elementary decisively exceeds district and state benchmarks in all three tested subjects. In 2025-26, math proficiency averaged 83.5% across grades 3 through 5, compared with roughly 78.8% for the district and 63.6% statewide. Reading proficiency averaged 73.5%, about 6 points above the district and 17 points above the state. Fifth-grade science proficiency reached 84.8%, besting the district by 5.5 points and the state by 17.1 points. Math is the school's strongest area, running about 10 points above reading in the most recent year, while science is consistently strong as well.
A few other metrics stand out. Chronic absenteeism is remarkably low at 6.9% — less than half the district rate of 14.6% and one-third of the state rate of 24.2%. The student-teacher ratio is 16.6 to 1, and 27.7% of students receive free or reduced lunch. Third-grade reading improved dramatically, jumping from 60.5% proficiency in 2024-25 to 73.4% in 2025-26, a 12.9-point gain. However, 5th-grade reading and science dipped somewhat over the same period, showing year-to-year variability by grade cohort. Per-pupil spending data is from 2018-19, so treat it as dated. Also, with no middle or high schools listed in Stallings, this analysis reflects only the elementary level.
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