NCES CCD 2024-25 16 schools NC

Best-Resourced Schools in Asheboro, NC

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16 public K-12 schools in Asheboro from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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16
Schools
9,395
Students
41.7/100
Avg Resource Index
15.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Asheboro has more public-school enrollment than 79% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Asheboro sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Asheboro's list includes 6 elementary, 3 middle, and 3 high-school campuses, plus 4 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 30-point gap between Farmer Elementary School and Asheboro High shows the range hidden by Asheboro's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 21%
School count
Top 21%
Resource Index average
54th percentile
Teacher staffing
51st percentile

Uwharrie Charter Academy accounts for 22.8% of all Asheboro public-school enrollment

That concentration means Asheboro-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Asheboro school enrollment varies 22× across entities

Asheboro school enrollment ranges from 99 students (lowest) to 2,145 students (highest), a spread of 2,046 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Asheboro reports 63.2% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Asheboro student-teacher ratio is 15.3:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Asheboro is typically wider than the Asheboro-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Farmer Elementary School 58
2. The Virtual Academy at Randolph 57
3. Southwestern Randolph Middle 48
4. Southmont Elementary School 46
5. Randolph Early College High School 46
6. Tabernacle Elementary School 46
7. Guy B Teachey Elementary 42
8. Lindley Park Elementary 42
9. Donna L Loflin Elementary 42
10. Southwestern Randolph High School 40
11. Charles W Mccrary Elementary 40
12. Balfour Elementary 37
13. South Asheboro Middle 33
14. Uwharrie Charter Academy 32
15. North Asheboro Middle 30
16. Asheboro High 28

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Asheboro

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Lindley Park Elementary 67.6/100
  2. 2 Charles W Mccrary Elementary 67.5/100
  3. 3 Guy B Teachey Elementary 65.1/100
  4. 4 South Asheboro Middle 64.7/100
  5. 5 Asheboro High 61.3/100

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Which Asheboro school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Farmer Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Asheboro schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Asheboro, NC? ▼

Asheboro has 16 public schools with a total enrollment of 9,395 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.3:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.