Summary:
ZIP 27571 covers Rolesville, North Carolina, where five schools serve roughly 5,100 students across grades PK-12; four of the schools belong to Wake County Schools, a 4-star district ranked 60th of 246 in the state, while Rolesville Charter Academy operates as its own single-school district, ranked 111th with 3 stars.
The strongest schools sit at the elementary level. Sanford Creek Elementary ranks highest at the 75th percentile (4 stars), with 4th-grade reading proficiency above 77%, far higher than the 57.7% state average; it also posts the ZIP’s lowest chronic absenteeism (13.4%) and its lowest share of low-income students. Rolesville Elementary follows at the 73rd percentile (4 stars), with standout 5th-grade math and science scores that top both district and state averages. Rolesville Middle sits at a solid 68th percentile (3 stars), beating state averages in all subjects but trailing its own district peers. Rolesville Charter Academy has improved the most, jumping from the 35th percentile two years ago to the 56th percentile today, though its math scores remain below the state average in every tested grade.
The clear outlier is Rolesville High. Although it sits in the same highly rated district, the school ranks at the 20th percentile (1 star), with every End-of-Course score below both the district and state averages; Math I proficiency is just 19.6% versus 42.1% statewide. Its chronic absenteeism rate of 35.5% (more than one in three students) stands far above the district average of 20.5%, and it has the ZIP’s lowest per-pupil spending. The result is a stark elementary-strong, high-school-weak pattern within one ZIP code. Still, the high school graduates 89.3% of its students, slightly above the state’s 88.8% rate, so families should weigh the low exam scores and the absenteeism problem against that more encouraging graduation figure.
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