Summary
Hope Middle is a public middle school in Greenville, NC, serving 952 students in grades 6–8 within Pitt County Schools. It is the largest middle school among nearby comparison schools, and it is also the highest performing: Hope currently ranks 47th out of 778 North Carolina middle schools (94th percentile) with a 5-star SchoolDigger rating and has finished at or above the 87th percentile every year since 2015–2016.
Hope’s test scores sit far above district and state averages. Across grades 6–8 EOG exams in reading, math, and science, average proficiency is about 81%, compared with roughly 59% for Pitt County Schools and 58% statewide. In 6th-grade math, 88.3% of Hope students are proficient, compared with 61.6% of students districtwide. Even Hope’s lowest subject result, 8th-grade math at 78.9% proficiency, exceeds the best result at most nearby middle schools such as A G Cox Middle, Farmville Middle, Wellcome Middle, C M Eppes Middle, and E B Aycock Middle. Hope’s chronic absenteeism rate of 16.5% is also far lower than at several nearby schools, where rates range from about 28% to 42%.
What makes these results especially notable is that Hope serves a student body with a 99.7% free/reduced lunch rate — essentially the same as its lower-performing neighbors — while spending less per student ($8,349) and maintaining a higher student-teacher ratio (18.0) than most peers. Statewide subgroup rankings put Hope in the top quartile for female, male, White, African American, Hispanic, multiracial, economically disadvantaged, English learner, and gifted students. Special education outcomes have also improved from the 43rd to the 72nd percentile in two years, and Hope improved in all seven measured grade/subject categories from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026.
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