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Best High Schools in Zip Code 28578

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732

Students

Top rankedSpring Creek High393^rd of 662 North Carolina high schools

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Summary:

Zip code 28578, which covers the rural Seven Springs area of North Carolina, is served by exactly one high school: Spring Creek High, a grades 9–12 school enrolling 732 students and part of Wayne County Public Schools, a district ranked in the 55th percentile statewide with a 3-star rating. Because this is the only high school in the zip code, the most useful context comes from comparing Spring Creek's performance with its district and state averages rather than with neighboring local schools.

Spring Creek High is a high-poverty school, with nearly 99% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Despite that challenge, its graduation rate of 84.9% exceeds the district's 81.3% but trails the state's 88.8%. Chronic absenteeism is a clearer concern: 31.0% of students are chronically absent, nearly matching the district's 31.6% but running well above the state's 24.2%. On End-of-Course tests in 2025–2026, the school's strongest area was Math III at 63.9%, while proficiency rates in Biology (53.0%), English II (52.0%), and Math I (52.0%) fell below district averages in most subjects. The one bright spot that year was Math I, where Spring Creek's 52.0% proficiency comfortably beat the state average of 42.1%.

The most striking pattern is how volatile the school's performance is from one year to the next. Between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, Math I proficiency dropped by 15.8 percentage points and English II fell by 12.4 points, while Biology improved by 13.5 points and Math III surged by 20.2 points. In 2024–2025, Spring Creek strongly outpaced both its district and the state in English II and Math I, suggesting real academic capacity. The school's state ranking tells the same story: 35th percentile in 2023–2024, 55th in 2024–2025, and back to 41st in 2025–2026. For parents, this points to a school capable of strong results, but one where consistency is a challenge. Reducing chronic absenteeism will likely be essential to stabilizing achievement and improving Spring Creek's statewide standing.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				EOC Biology (2026)	EOC English II (2026)	EOC Math I (2026)	EOC Math III (2026)	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/Discounted Lunch Recipients (2025)	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	EOC Biology End of Course	EOC English II End of Course	EOC Math I End of Course	EOC Math III End of Course	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Spring Creek High	Public	9-12	4340 Indian Springs Rd	Seven Springs	28578	Wayne County	Wayne County Public Schools	No	No	No	No	(919) 751-7160	732	32	22.9	98.6%	137 (18.7%)	114 (15.6%)	454 (62.0%)	1 (0.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	26 (3.6%)	41.8	393^rd of 662 public high schools	40.6%		51.1	287^th of 641 public high schools	55.2%	106	53.0	52.0	52.0	63.9	$9,260	$926	$8,335

Cities Near Zip Code 28578

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Seven Springs	1.76 mi	2	209^th
Goldsboro	5.76 mi	26	318^th
Mount Olive	7.56 mi	4	253^rd
Dudley	7.82 mi	3	430^th
Kinston	9.38 mi	13	338^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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