23 public K-12 schools in Goldsboro from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Goldsboro has more public-school enrollment than 81% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Goldsboro's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.
11 of Goldsboro's 23 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.
95.5% of enrollment in reporting Goldsboro schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 3 districts. That pairing makes a citywide average especially easy to misread: the need measure follows students, but staffing decisions, calendars, program rules, and federal allocations are administered through separate district structures. The 58-point gap between Wayne Middle / High Academy and Wayne School of Technical Arts shows how much reported resource capacity can vary inside the same municipal label. Compare schools within the same district first, then use the city view to see how those local systems differ.
Goldsboro school enrollment ranges from 38 students (lowest) to 804 students (highest), a spread of 766 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
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. 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
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 Goldsboro is typically wider than the Goldsboro-aggregate figure suggests.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Wayne Middle / High Academy | 58 |
| 2. | Wayne Early / Middle College High | 56 |
| 3. | Goldsboro High | 46 |
| 4. | Rosewood Elementary | 40 |
| 5. | Rosewood High | 40 |
| 6. | Eastern Wayne High | 39 |
| 7. | Wayne School of Engineering | 39 |
| 8. | Spring Creek Elementary | 37 |
| 9. | Rosewood Middle | 37 |
| 10. | Dillard Middle | 36 |
| 11. | Carver Heights Elementary | 33 |
| 12. | Grantham Elementary | 32 |
| 13. | Grantham Middle | 32 |
| 14. | Wayne Preparatory Academy | 31 |
| 15. | Meadow Lane Elementary | 30 |
| 16. | Eastern Wayne Elementary | 30 |
| 17. | Tommy's Road Elementary | 29 |
| 18. | Eastern Wayne Middle | 29 |
| 19. | Greenwood Middle | 29 |
| 20. | Edgewood Cmty Developmental | 26 |
| 21. | North Drive Elementary | 24 |
| 22. | Dillard Academy | 19 |
| 23. | Wayne School of Technical Arts | - |
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.
Wayne Middle / High Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Goldsboro 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.
Goldsboro has 23 public schools with a total enrollment of 10,173 students. 2 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.2:1.
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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.
