Summary
Wagram Elementary is a PK–5 school in Wagram, NC, serving about 508 students in the Scotland County Schools district, which ranks in the bottom 17% of North Carolina districts. The school serves a deeply impoverished student body — roughly 99% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch — a level of poverty shared by nearly every nearby school, including West Hoke Elementary, Upchurch Elementary, and Oxendine Elementary.
Academically, Wagram is one of the lowest-performing elementary schools in the state, ranking in the 6th percentile of North Carolina elementary schools with a 0-star rating. The school struggles most in 4th grade math (26.7% proficient vs. 61.4% statewide), 5th grade reading (27.8% vs. 55.3% statewide), and 5th grade science (40.3%, down three straight years). What makes these results especially striking is that nearby schools with nearly identical poverty profiles perform far better. West Hoke Elementary, about six miles away, posted 60.9% proficiency in 4th grade math and ranks in the 41st percentile statewide; Upchurch and Oxendine also produce substantially stronger outcomes. In other words, Wagram's low ranking is not simply a story about poverty — it is a story about school-level challenges that peer schools have found ways to overcome.
There are, however, some encouraging signs. Third grade math has improved steadily from 40.0% in 2022-23 to 53.2% in 2025-26, nearly matching the district average — though those gains have not yet carried into 4th and 5th grade. Chronic absenteeism, while still high at 25.0%, has fallen sharply from 39.4% a few years ago and now sits close to the state average. The school also shows a notable relative strength in serving its Native American students, who rank near the median of North Carolina schools in that subgroup, while other groups score in the bottom single digits. With attendance improving and early math gains taking hold, Wagram has real building blocks to work from; the central challenge is sustaining that momentum in the upper elementary grades, where proficiency currently falls off a cliff.
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