Summary:
Zip code 28117 in Mooresville, NC is home to three public middle schools — The Brawley School, Woodland Heights Middle, and Lakeshore Middle — all part of Iredell-Statesville Schools and all serving grades 6 through 8. Together these schools serve roughly 1,750 students, but they operate at very different academic levels within the same district and neighborhood.
The clear standout is The Brawley School, ranked 26th out of 778 North Carolina middle schools with a 97th-percentile, 5-star rating. Its EOG proficiency rates are exceptional — 95% in 8th-grade math and 95.4% in 8th-grade science — and its chronic absenteeism is only 6.3%. Woodland Heights Middle is also a strong option, ranked 138th with a 4-star, 82nd-percentile rating and an overall EOG average around 71%. There is a substantial gap between the two: Brawley’s scores rise as students move through middle school, while Woodland Heights dips in 8th-grade math and reading. In fact, in 8th-grade math alone, the gap between the two schools is roughly 26 percentage points.
Lakeshore Middle ranks 357th, at the 54th percentile with 3 stars, and its overall proficiency of roughly 58% sits essentially at the state average. The good news is Lakeshore has improved steadily, rising from the 45th percentile two years ago, with 7th-grade reading and math each jumping more than ten points. The main concern is 8th-grade math, where only 42.3% of students are proficient — the lowest figure in this data set. Poverty and attendance patterns closely mirror the achievement hierarchy: free/reduced lunch rates range from 8.6% at Brawley to 40.5% at Lakeshore, while chronic absenteeism ranges from 6.3% to about 15.5%. Notably, the highest-poverty school also receives the lowest per-student spending, an equity issue worth attention.
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