Summary:
Zip code 28124 is served by a single elementary school, Mount Pleasant Elementary, which educates 679 students in grades K-5 as part of Cabarrus County Schools, a 4-star district ranked 67th out of 246 districts in North Carolina.
With no other elementary school in the zip code to compare against, Mount Pleasant Elementary is best understood through its performance relative to its district and state. The school has earned a 4-star rating in each of the past three years and currently ranks in the 75th percentile of North Carolina elementary schools (379 of 1,492), after reaching the 81st percentile the previous year. Its greatest strength is 5th grade science, where 89.8% of students are proficient—well above the district's 80.2% and the state's 67.7%. Math also outpaces reading at every grade level: in 3rd grade, math proficiency is 71.1% versus 58.6% in reading; in 4th grade, it is 67.9% versus 59.8%; and in 5th grade, it is 77.8% versus 65.7%. While the school beats the state average in every tested subject, reading trails its own district in the early grades, especially in 4th grade, where the school falls 5.1 percentage points behind the district average.
Several patterns are worth noting for parents. Most striking is a 10.9-point drop in 4th grade math proficiency, falling from 78.8% to 67.9% in a single year—a trend that deserves monitoring. On a more positive note, 3rd grade reading improved substantially, rising 6.8 points from 51.8% to 58.6%. The school also reports low chronic absenteeism of just 13.2%, far below the district's 18.0% and the state's 24.2%, and it achieves strong results even though 43.6% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. With a favorable student-teacher ratio of 14.9, consistent top-quartile rankings, and clear academic strengths in math and science, Mount Pleasant Elementary is a solid educational anchor for its community, with its clearest opportunity for growth centered on strengthening elementary reading proficiency.
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