Summary:
ZIP code 28110, in the Monroe, North Carolina area, contains 14 schools serving roughly 10,740 students from kindergarten through 12th grade, most of them within Union County Public Schools. School quality ranges widely. Wesley Chapel Elementary ranks in the top 1% of North Carolina elementary schools, with math proficiency above 94% and the lowest chronic absenteeism in the ZIP. Union County Early College leads all high schools with a 96th-percentile ranking and nearly perfect Biology, English II, and Math III scores. Union Academy, a large K-12 charter, also exceeds state averages on every end-of-course exam and graduates 93.5% of its students.
The area's other charter school tells a very different story. ALA Monroe ranks in the bottom 20% of elementary schools, with a 44.1% chronic absenteeism rate and test scores well below state averages in nearly every grade. Among traditional public elementary schools, Benton Heights Elementary is the lowest-performing, finishing in the 35th percentile despite receiving the highest per-student spending in the ZIP ($16,222) and having the smallest class sizes. Rocky River Elementary and Sardis Elementary, like Benton Heights, serve populations where over 98% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and all three lag district averages in reading.
Among traditional high schools, Piedmont High outpaces Sun Valley High in Biology (68.5% vs. 49.3%) and English II (72.7% vs. 64.9%), though both post nearly identical graduation rates around 93%. Piedmont Middle, the ZIP's only traditional middle school, finishes well above state averages in math and science but trails its own district in reading. The bottom line for parents: ZIP 28110 offers some of North Carolina's best schools alongside others that struggle, so researching individual school performance is essential.
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