Summary:
The 27573 ZIP code in the Roxboro area of North Carolina has two elementary schools: South Elementary, a PK–5 school in Person County Schools serving 463 students, and Carolina Community Academy, a small K–2 school with 91 students.
South Elementary is the only school in this ZIP code with state test scores and rankings because Carolina Community Academy serves only grades K–2, before state End-of-Grade testing begins. This makes South Elementary the main academic benchmark for the area. Despite having 99.35% of students eligible for free/reduced lunch, South Elementary has a 3-star rating and sits at the 51st–52nd state percentile, improving from a 2-star rating in 2023-2024. Its strengths include 4th-grade math (73.1% proficient vs. 61.4% statewide) and 3rd-grade reading (60.3% vs. 55.6% statewide) in 2025-2026. The weak spots are 5th-grade reading (42.4% vs. 55.3% statewide) and 5th-grade science (57.6% vs. 67.7% statewide).
Carolina Community Academy is a much smaller school and cannot yet be compared academically, but it does have very high economic need, with 96.7% of students eligible for free/reduced lunch. Both schools have encouraging attendance: chronic absenteeism is 17.7% at South Elementary and 21.3% at Carolina Community Academy, both below the state average of 24.2%. South Elementary also reports a student-teacher ratio of 16.9 and per-student spending of $11,522. In short, parents in this ZIP code should view South Elementary as the primary source of academic data, while Carolina Community Academy is best monitored in the future as its students reach tested grades or through early-literacy measures.
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