Summary:
ZIP code 27011 is home to just one high school, Starmount High, a 9–12 campus in Boonville, NC serving 556 students under Yadkin County Schools. Because there is no other high school in the area to compare against, the most useful benchmarks are the district and state averages for North Carolina.
Starmount High is a mixed picture. Its strongest academic area is mathematics: in 2025–2026, Math III proficiency reached 69.4%, slightly above the state’s 68.9%, and Math I proficiency hit 45.1%, topping both the district (42.2%) and state (42.1%). However, English II remains a major concern, with only 48.5% of students proficient versus 57.5% in the district and 64.6% statewide. Biology also lags at 49.2% compared to the state's 58.5%. The school serves a largely low-income population, with 62.95% of students eligible for free/reduced-price lunch, and chronic absenteeism is a red flag at 29.7%, notably higher than the district rate of 22.3% and the state rate of 24.2%. Despite these challenges, the graduation rate is 89.7%, slightly above the state average of 88.8%. The student-to-teacher ratio of 21.2 is relatively high, which may limit individualized attention.
The most striking trend is the dramatic year-over-year improvement in test scores. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Math I proficiency soared by 24.4 percentage points (from 20.7% to 45.1%), English II jumped 15.2 points (33.3% to 48.5%), and Math III rose 12.4 points (57.0% to 69.4%); only Biology saw minimal change at +0.6 points. Reflecting those gains, Starmount’s statewide ranking improved from the 26th percentile (1-star) in 2024–2025 to the 37th percentile (2-star) in 2025–2026, though it previously sat at the 45th percentile in 2023–2024. In short, Starmount shows real strength in math and strong recent momentum, but its English II and Biology results, combined with high absenteeism, still hold it back in the lower half of North Carolina high schools.
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