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Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 28117

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Schools

1,893

Students

5-star schools

Top rankedWoodland Heights Elementary78^th of 1,492 North Carolina elementary schools

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Woodland Heights Elementary up 25 spots statewide this year

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Summary:

ZIP code 28117 in the Mooresville area of North Carolina includes three public elementary schools—Lakeshore Elementary, Lake Norman Elementary, and Woodland Heights Elementary—all serving grades PK-5 and all part of Iredell-Statesville Schools, with a combined enrollment of 1,893 students. These schools sit within a district ranked 121st of 246 in North Carolina with a 51st percentile rating and 3 stars, yet each school in ZIP 28117 exceeds both district and state averages on every reported EOG subject and grade for both 2024-25 and 2025-26.

Woodland Heights Elementary is the standout school among the three. It earned a 2025-26 rank of 78th of 1,492 North Carolina schools, placing it in the 95th percentile with 5 stars, and it leads the group in reading proficiency (77.7% average), 5th-grade science (92.7% proficient), and the lowest chronic absenteeism rate at just 5.7%. Lake Norman Elementary trails only slightly overall but is the strongest school in mathematics, posting an 88.6% average math score and a 91st-percentile, 5-star ranking. Lakeshore Elementary, while comfortably above state averages, is the least academically strong of the three at the 73rd percentile with 4 stars, and its reading average of 60.5% is 17.2 points behind Woodland Heights.

Chronic absenteeism also separates the schools: Woodland Heights (5.7%) and Lake Norman (6.1%) are excellent, while Lakeshore (14.4%) is more than double its neighbors, though still below the 19.9% district rate and the 24.2% state rate. Free and reduced lunch rates follow a similar pattern, with Lakeshore highest at 29.3%, followed by Lake Norman at 19.3% and Woodland Heights at 16.7%. Student-teacher ratios are nearly identical at roughly 15:1 across all three schools, and per-student spending does not align with performance. All three schools improved their composite EOG scores from 2024-25 to 2025-26, with Woodland Heights showing the largest gain at +5.3 points. The data suggests that Woodland Heights and Lake Norman are the strongest of the three overall, with Woodland Heights leading in reading and science while Lake Norman takes the top spot in math.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				EOG Mathematics (2026)			EOG Reading (2026)			EOG Science (2026)	Vaccination (2025-26)		Per Pupil Expenditures (2019)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	EOG Mathematics 3rd Grade	EOG Mathematics 4th Grade	EOG Mathematics 5th Grade	EOG Reading 3rd Grade	EOG Reading 4th Grade	EOG Reading 5th Grade	EOG Science 5th Grade	Vaccination: Kindergartners up to date on all required vaccines	Vaccination: Exemption rate	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Lake Norman Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	255 Oak Tree Road	Mooresville	28117	Iredell County	Iredell-Statesville Schools	No	No	No	No	(704) 662-8261	641	43	14.9	19.3%	411 (64.1%)	33 (5.1%)	119 (18.6%)	36 (5.6%)	1 (0.2%)	2 (0.3%)	39 (6.1%)	88.7	135^th of 1492 public elementary schools	91.0%		87.8	140^th of 1490 public elementary schools	90.6%	5	90.0	85.2	90.5	70.0	68.9	73.7	86.3	87.6%	6.7%	$8,170	$300	$7,869
Lakeshore Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	252 Lakeshore School Road	Mooresville	28117	Iredell County	Iredell-Statesville Schools	No	No	No	No	(704) 660-5970	658	43	15.3	29.3%	462 (70.2%)	45 (6.8%)	81 (12.3%)	32 (4.9%)	1 (0.2%)	1 (0.2%)	36 (5.5%)	70.3	410^th of 1492 public elementary schools	72.5%		68.5	414^th of 1490 public elementary schools	72.2%	4	77.6	68.8	68.2	63.8	57.8	59.8	84.1	91.3%	8.7%	$8,282	$591	$7,691
Woodland Heights Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	288 Forest Lake Boulevard	Mooresville	28117	Iredell County	Iredell-Statesville Schools	No	No	No	No	(704) 663-1370	594	39	15.4	16.7%	493 (83.0%)	13 (2.2%)	41 (6.9%)	23 (3.9%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	24 (4.0%)	92.5	78^th of 1492 public elementary schools	94.8%		90.5	103^rd of 1490 public elementary schools	93.1%	25	84.3	90.1	88.1	69.7	78.2	85.3	92.7	89.7%	8.8%	$7,823	$341	$7,482

Cities Near Zip Code 28117

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Mooresville	0.57 mi	20	72^nd
Troutman	5.78 mi	4	365^th
Davidson	5.94 mi	2	16^th
Mount Ulla	7.58 mi	2	261^st
Cornelius	7.87 mi	5	88^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the North Carolina Dept of Public Instruction.

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