Summary:
Granville County Schools includes just one middle school, Northern Granville Middle, located in Oxford, North Carolina, serving grades 6 through 8 with an enrollment of 495 students and a student-teacher ratio of 18.5 to 1. The school sits within a district ranked 182nd out of 246 North Carolina districts, and nearly 95% of its students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch — a strong indicator of the economic challenges facing the surrounding community.
Northern Granville Middle has ranked in the bottom 10% of North Carolina middle schools for each of the past three school years, earning zero stars from SchoolDigger each time, so its overall position has not meaningfully improved. Academically, it trails both its own district and the state in every single EOG subject and grade level. In 2025–2026, roughly 34.5% of students scored proficient across all tested subjects, compared to about 42.3% district-wide and 57.7% statewide. The most concerning results are in reading, especially 6th grade, where only 26.7% of students are proficient — nearly 28 points behind the state average. That figure represents a sharp decline from the prior year's 34.3% and is the school's lowest score in any subject or grade.
There are encouraging signs, however. Eighth grade science improved dramatically, jumping from 31.5% proficiency in 2024–2025 to 46.4% in 2025–2026 — the school's strongest result in any subject and a 14.9-point gain. Seventh and eighth grade math also moved upward, with 7th grade climbing from 24.2% to 32.5%. Chronic absenteeism affects 34.8% of students, which is better than the district rate of 40.9% but still well above the state's 24.2%. In short, Northern Granville Middle is a high-poverty school facing serious academic challenges, but the recent gains in science and upper-grade math suggest that focused instructional efforts may be starting to pay off, even as 6th grade reading clearly needs urgent attention.
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