Summary
Roberta Road Middle is a public 6–8 middle school in Concord, NC, serving 906 students and operating as part of Cabarrus County Schools, an above-average district statewide. Overall, Roberta sits close to the middle of North Carolina middle schools—ranking in the 54th percentile with a 57.7% EOG proficiency average—which means it performs right at the state average while surrounded by several higher-scoring schools. For example, Harris Road Middle and Hickory Ridge Middle rank in the 95th–97th percentile with much lower poverty rates. At the same time, Roberta clearly outperforms higher-poverty neighbors like Concord Middle, which averages about 40% proficiency, and it slightly edges out similar-poverty schools such as C C Griffin Middle and Harold E. Winkler Middle.
The school’s most notable challenge is chronic absenteeism: nearly 24% of students are chronically absent, well above the district average of 18% and closer to the state average. This gap stands out when compared with top local schools such as Northwest Cabarrus Middle, where absenteeism is under 15%. Academically, Roberta shows an unusual pattern by grade: reading proficiency rises from 51% in 6th grade to 62.5% in 8th grade—actually above the state average—while math proficiency falls from 58% in 6th grade to 48.5% in 8th grade, leaving a 14-point gap by the end of middle school. That 8th grade math score has jumped dramatically from just 29.8% the prior year, but it remains well below the district’s 61.6%. Encouragingly, 8th grade science is a genuine strength, with 73.2% proficiency, nearly matching the district’s high-performing profile.
Subgroup results are also worth noting. Female students rank significantly higher than males, and African American, Hispanic, and English Learner students all perform better relative to their same-group peers statewide than the school’s overall rank suggests; English Learners, in particular, have soared from the 18th to the 70th percentile in just two years. The weaker spots are Special Education and Gifted students, though both have fluctuated widely year to year. Combined with strong reading outcomes in 8th grade, these signals suggest Roberta’s biggest remaining lever is improving math in the upper grades—and if that trajectory continues, this middle-of-the-pack school could move firmly into the upper half of North Carolina middle schools.
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