Summary:
This data set covers one school, The Expedition School, in Hillsborough, North Carolina — a K–8 school with 380 students that is classified as an elementary school, spans both elementary and middle-grade levels, and operates as its own single-school district, The Expedition School.
The Expedition School is an exceptionally high-performing school by nearly every measure. It currently ranks #52 out of 1,492 North Carolina schools, placing it in the 97th percentile with a five-star rating, while its home district, The Expedition School, ranks #6 out of 246 districts, or the 98th percentile. The school has held a five-star rating and a 96th–97th percentile ranking consistently across all three reported years (2023-24, 2024-25, and 2025-26). On state EOG tests, every subject, grade, and year listed exceeds the North Carolina state average, often by very large margins. Averaging grade-level results, the school posts 90.5% proficiency in math, 91.7% in reading, and 95.4% in science for 2025-26, compared with state averages of 59.9%, 56.0%, and 68.2%, respectively — an advantage of roughly 27 to 38 percentage points per subject. Middle grades are especially strong, with 7th grade math and reading at 97.6%, 8th grade math at 97.4%, and 8th grade science at a perfect 100%.
While the school is strong across the board, 3rd grade math (78% in 2025-26) stands out as the only proficiency rate below 80% in the most recent year, though it remains well above the state average. In the prior year, the largest anomaly was 4th grade math at 69.8%, but that same cohort scored 81.4% in 5th grade math the following year, suggesting a cohort-specific dip rather than a systemic problem. Chronic absenteeism is very low at 5.9% compared with the state rate of 24.2%, and the 13.1-to-1 student–teacher ratio may support individualized instruction. No free/reduced lunch data were available, and with only 380 students spread across K–8, grade-level cohorts are small enough that annual proficiency rates can swing from year to year based on a small number of students.
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