Roxboro Community School

Roxboro Community School (RCS) is a public grades 6–12 school in Roxboro, NC serving 727 students, and it stands out as the strongest academic option in the immediate area. In fact, when ranked as the Roxboro Community School district, it places 21st out of 246 North Carolina districts — a five-star performance. This is especially notable compared to nearby schools: RCS ranks in the 82nd percentile statewide, while Discovery Charter sits at the 38th percentile, Person High at the 33rd, and Bartlett Yancey High at the 17th.

RCS’s academic results are consistently far above state averages. On 2025–26 end-of-course tests, 91.7% of students were proficient in English II and 97.2% in Math III — compared to state averages of 64.6% and 68.9%, respectively. Biology proficiency reached 83%, and 8th-grade science hit 87.7% on middle-school EOGs. RCS also posted a 94.1% graduation rate versus 87.7% statewide, and chronic absenteeism was just 9.9%, less than half the state’s 24.2% and dramatically better than Bartlett Yancey High at 28.2% and Person High at 34.1%. Even Person Early College, its closest competitor in the area, trails RCS in every tested subject.

RCS’s success also extends across student groups, with 2025–26 rankings placing its Gifted and Talented students 6th statewide, and its economically disadvantaged, African American, and female students all in the low-to-mid 80th percentile. One internal weakness worth noting is Math I: at 57.5% proficiency, it remains above the state’s 42.1% but lags far behind the school’s nearly universal Math III results. RCS was historically a top-20 school during the 2015–2019 period and now sits comfortably in the upper tier of North Carolina schools — still the clear academic anchor of its region.