Summary:
Zip code 27589, encompassing the Warrenton, North Carolina area, contains exactly one middle school, Warren County Middle, serving grades 6 through 8 and enrolling 342 students as part of the Warren County Schools district. The school faces extreme economic disadvantage, with 99.12% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch.
Warren County Middle ranks in the 3rd percentile among North Carolina middle schools for the 2025-26 school year and has earned a 0-star rating for three consecutive years. Academic proficiency is far below state averages across all subjects and grade levels. In 2025-26, only 8.9% of 6th graders were proficient in math (state: 59.2%), and 19.0% of 6th graders were proficient in reading (state: 54.8%). Proficiency in 8th-grade science is the school's relative strength at 40.4%, though the state average is 68.6%. Across all EOG subjects tested, roughly 22% of students met proficiency standards on average, compared with approximately 58% statewide. Performance has also declined from the prior year, when the school averaged about 27% proficiency.
Chronic absenteeism is a major issue. In 2024-25, 38.0% of Warren County Middle students were chronically absent, exceeding the state rate of 24.2%, though the district rate is even higher at 45.7%. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.1-to-1, and per-student spending was $13,208 as of 2018-19, though current funding levels are unclear. Statewide rankings have not meaningfully improved, remaining below the 7th percentile in each of the last three school years. In short, Warren County Middle serves a highly economically disadvantaged population and continues to struggle with low academic outcomes and high absenteeism, despite relatively small class sizes and substantial per-student funding in the past.
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