Best Public Schools in Zip Code 27828

ZIP code 27828 in Farmville, NC is served by four public schools — H B Sugg Elementary (PK–2), Sam D Bundy Elementary (3–5), Farmville Middle (6–8), and Farmville Central High (9–12) — all part of Pitt County Schools. Together they form a complete PK–12 pipeline enrolling about 2,096 students in a high-poverty community where every school's free/reduced lunch rate exceeds 99%, and the district ranks 112th among North Carolina's 246 districts with a 3-star rating.

Sam D Bundy Elementary is the area's biggest standout: its state ranking jumped from the 21st to the 36th percentile in a single year, with 3rd-grade math rising from 46.9% to 66.1% proficient and reading from 31.3% to 52.4%. Farmville Central High also improved, climbing from the 24th to the 34th percentile, and its Math III proficiency surged from 37.3% to 69.6% — now above the state average. Yet only 21.4% of its students are proficient in Math I, less than half the state rate. Farmville Middle is the weakest link, ranking at the 30th percentile with 1 star after dropping from 2 stars, while H B Sugg Elementary serves PK–2, carries no test ranking, and spends the most per student at $12,250.

Chronic absenteeism is not a uniform issue: Farmville Middle, H B Sugg, and Sam D Bundy all stay below the state average of 24.2%, but Farmville Central High has a 29.1% chronic absenteeism rate. Reading proficiency at Sam D Bundy also declines sharply across upper elementary, falling from 52.4% in 3rd grade to 33.6% in 5th grade. Since Farmville Middle feeds directly into Farmville Central High, raising middle-school achievement in 7th-grade math and 6th-grade reading could have an outsized impact on the entire community.