Moss Street Elementary

Moss Street Elementary is a PK-5 school in Reidsville, NC, serving 354 students in the Rockingham County Schools district. The school has ranked in the bottom 1% of elementary schools statewide for three straight years (2025-2026: #1478 of 1492; 2024-2025: #1480 of 1490; 2023-2024: #1495 of 1505), and 97.5% of its students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

Academic proficiency is dramatically below district and state levels: the average EOG proficiency across subjects is about 26.7%, compared with 51.7% districtwide and 61.0% statewide. Particularly urgent are 3rd grade reading, at 17.6% proficiency versus 55.6% statewide, and 4th grade math, at 14.9% versus 61.4% statewide. Moss Street also has a severe attendance crisis: 47.9% of students were chronically absent in 2024-2025, up sharply from 21.7% in 2017-2018, nearly double the state average of 24.2% and far above the highest nearby school, Central Elementary, at 35.1%.

Moss Street also ranks in the 1st percentile statewide, the lowest of all nearby schools. Lincoln Elementary, Wentworth Elementary, and Douglass Elementary all serve similarly high-poverty populations yet rank at the 60th, 52nd, and 50th percentiles, respectively. Even South End Elementary, just 1.6 miles away and also serving high-poverty Reidsville students, reaches about 45% proficiency. This shows the challenges are school-specific rather than inevitable. There are modest bright spots: 5th grade math proficiency rose from 8.2% to 39.7%, and 5th grade reading from 8.2% to 22.2%, over two years. Still, subgroup outcomes remain in the lowest percentiles statewide, and results for special education students have fallen from the 30th percentile to the 1st percentile in three years. Understanding these gaps — and the dramatic difference from neighboring schools — is essential when looking at the school's overall picture.