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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 27552

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545

Students

Top rankedBoone Trail Elementary1189^th of 1,492 North Carolina elementary schools

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Boone Trail Elementary up 74 spots statewide this year

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Summary:

Zip code 27552 has one school listed: Boone Trail Elementary, part of Harnett County Schools. It serves grades PK through 5 and enrolls 545 students. Because no middle or high schools are located in this zip code, this summary focuses on Boone Trail Elementary, using the district and North Carolina statewide averages as benchmarks.

Boone Trail Elementary serves a very high-poverty population: 98.72% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and 30.2% were chronically absent in 2024-2025, above both district and state averages. Despite these challenges, the school has a clear bright spot in 3rd grade. In 2025-2026, 71.3% of 3rd graders were proficient in math, outpacing the district’s 64.4% and the state’s 66.4%. Third-grade reading, at 52.1%, was essentially tied with the district. These early-grade results are notable given the school’s poverty profile. However, performance drops sharply by upper elementary: 5th-grade reading proficiency was just 30.7%, compared to 55.3% statewide, and 5th-grade science was 42.6% versus 67.7% statewide. Overall, Boone Trail trails the state in six of seven reported subject and grade combinations and trails its district in five of seven.

The school has also seen large year-to-year swings. Between 2024-2025 and 2025-2026, 3rd-grade reading jumped from 31.1% to 52.1% proficiency and 3rd-grade math rose from 51.1% to 71.3%, while 5th-grade reading fell from 42.7% to 30.7%. This suggests real early-grade improvement, but cohort differences may also be at play. Boone Trail’s statewide ranking has improved steadily, from the 12th percentile in 2023-2024 to the 20th percentile in 2025-2026, yet it remains in the bottom fifth of North Carolina elementary schools and still carries a 1-star rating. Overall, Boone Trail Elementary is a high-poverty school with meaningful early-grade strengths in 3rd-grade math, but continued support in upper-grade reading and science will be important as families look beyond this elementary school in zip code 27552.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				EOG Mathematics (2026)			EOG Reading (2026)			EOG Science (2026)	Per Pupil Expenditures (2019)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients (2025)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	EOG Mathematics 3rd Grade	EOG Mathematics 4th Grade	EOG Mathematics 5th Grade	EOG Reading 3rd Grade	EOG Reading 4th Grade	EOG Reading 5th Grade	EOG Science 5th Grade	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Boone Trail Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	1425 Adcock Road	Lillington	27552	Harnett County	Harnett County Schools	No	No	No	Yes	(910) 893-4013	545	37	14.7	98.7%	229 (42.0%)	79 (14.5%)	208 (38.2%)	3 (0.6%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	25 (4.6%)	25	1189^th of 1492 public elementary schools	20.3%		20.9	1263^rd of 1490 public elementary schools	15.2%	74	71.3	43.6	45.5	52.1	38.3	30.7	42.6	$9,275	$1,308	$7,968

Cities Near Zip Code 27552

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Lillington	1.67 mi	6	439^th
Broadway	7.03 mi	1	460^th
Fuquay Varina	8.64 mi	14	139^th
Bunnlevel	8.73 mi	2	418^th
Angier	8.86 mi	7	304^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the North Carolina Dept of Public Instruction.

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