Summary:
Northampton County Schools is home to one middle school, Conway Middle, a grades 4–8 campus of 259 students in Conway, North Carolina, so this is best treated as a single-school profile benchmarked against district and state averages rather than a comparison between local schools. The good news is that Conway Middle outperforms the Northampton County Schools district average in every tested subject, though it still trails the state average by a wide margin.
Conway Middle's strongest 2025–2026 results came in 4th grade math (51.9% proficient) and 5th grade science (50% proficient), both of which improved dramatically from the prior year. Weak spots are concentrated in the upper grades: 6th grade reading sits at just 29.7% proficient, while 7th grade math (30.8%) and 8th grade math (34.1%) lag well behind. The math gap between Conway Middle and the state widens from only 9.5 points in 4th grade to 25.4 points by 7th grade, indicating older students fall further behind. Reading proficiency also swings widely between grade levels, with a nearly 20-point gap between 6th and 7th grade. Despite overall proficiency improving from 38.0% to 42.6% over the past year, Conway Middle's statewide ranking slid from the 25th percentile to the 15th percentile, and the school holds a 1-star rating.
The school serves an extremely high-need population: 98.84% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and 45.2% are chronically absent—almost double the state rate of 24.2%. The student-teacher ratio is 13.6, and per-student spending is reported at $13,857, though that figure comes from an older school year. Conway Middle's 2025–2026 EOG averages of about 42.6% proficiency across subjects remain roughly 16–17 points behind the state, meaning real progress is happening in places, but the school still faces significant hurdles tied to poverty and attendance.
Thank you for your feedback!