Summary
Broadview Middle is a grades 6–8 public school in Burlington, North Carolina, serving a very high-poverty population of 512 students in the Alamance-Burlington Schools district. Nearly all students (99.4%) qualify for free/reduced lunch, and academic proficiency remains well below state averages: 36.2% of students are proficient in math and 38.0% in reading, compared with state rates of 56.1% and 55.7%. Eighth grade science, at 54.4% proficient, is the closest subject to district-level performance, and the school posted substantial one-year gains in both reading and science. Broadview is still a one-star school in the bottom fifth of North Carolina middle schools, but its statewide percentile has climbed from 4th in 2022-23 to 16th today, and chronic absenteeism has dropped from 44.1% to 30.6% over the past few years.
Broadview's results are not uniformly low. English Language Learner students rank at the 55th percentile statewide, gifted and talented students at the 79th, and African American students at the 45th. The bigger concerns are female students, who rank at just the 10th percentile and are falling behind their male classmates, and special education students, whose statewide ranking dropped sharply from the 33rd to the 13th percentile this past year.
Nearby comparisons offer useful context. Graham Middle, just 1.46 miles away, serves an almost identical poverty population (99.5% free/reduced lunch) yet ranks at the 5th percentile; Broadview beats Graham on nearly every measure, including 7th grade reading (40.8% vs. 26.2% proficient) and 8th grade science (54.4% vs. 33.5%). At the other end, Hawfields Middle, about six miles away, ranks in the top 20% of North Carolina middle schools—evidence that strong results are possible in this district. Woodlawn Middle and Western Alamance Middle also outperform Broadview, which spends more per student ($9,956) than most of its in-district peers. The overall picture: Broadview is still low-performing, but it is moving upward and outperforming its most similar neighbor.
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