Asheboro City Schools

Asheboro City Schools serves 4,405 students in the Asheboro, North Carolina area across 8 schools spanning grades K-12 — five elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school — with nearly every student (98% or more at each school) qualifying for free or reduced lunch. The district ranks in the 14th percentile of North Carolina districts (1 star), below most districts statewide, but performance varies widely by school. Guy B Teachey Elementary stands out as the district leader with a 51st-percentile rank and 3 stars, while Donna L Loflin Elementary is the lowest-ranked school in the district, sitting at the 5th percentile.

Families comparing schools will find clear tiers among the elementaries. Guy B Teachey leads, beating state averages in math at every elementary grade level and in 5th-grade science. Balfour Elementary sits in the middle at the 23rd percentile, while Charles W McCrary Elementary, Lindley Park Elementary, and Donna L Loflin all land in the bottom 5th to 10th percentile of North Carolina elementary schools. Among middle schools, South Asheboro Middle ranks well above North Asheboro Middle (35th vs. 23rd percentile) and beats it in most subjects, including a 7th-grade math proficiency rate of 62% — above the state’s 56.2%. However, North Asheboro Middle tops South in 8th-grade reading and science and improved its 8th-grade math from 23.7% to 36.1% in one year. Asheboro High posts below-state proficiency in English II, Math I, Math III, and Biology, yet its 91.6% graduation rate exceeds the state’s 88.8%.

Reading is the district’s most consistent weakness: every elementary school is below state reading averages at every grade level, with the 5th-grade gap the starkest at 23.6 points. Math is a relative bright spot, with dramatic one-year gains that include Donna L Loflin’s 3rd-grade math climbing from 30.8% to 55.6% and Balfour’s 5th-grade math jumping from 35.4% to 57.5%. Chronic absenteeism (24.4%) essentially matches the state average but does not explain school performance — Lindley Park has the district’s lowest absenteeism rate (17.1%) yet still ranks near the bottom academically. In short, Asheboro City Schools is a high-poverty district with serious reading challenges, but Teachey’s success and the strong math improvements show meaningful progress is possible here.