North Elementary

North Elementary serves 291 students in pre-kindergarten through fourth grade in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. It earns a composite score of 9.1 out of 10 — rated Exceptional — placing it 40th among 2,648 public schools across North Carolina and outperforming 98% of schools statewide. Among the seven public schools in Kings Mountain, it ranks first.

Academic performance scores 8.9 out of 10. Growth — measuring how much each student advances relative to where they started — scores 9.6 out of 10, the school's highest mark. That figure signals students here are making real learning gains year over year, not simply arriving with advantages already in place.

With 291 students and a 13.2-to-1 student-teacher ratio, classes stay small and teachers have capacity to work closely with individual students. North Elementary also ranks 36th among 1,474 elementary schools statewide, placing it in the top 3 percent of public elementary programs in North Carolina. For families comparing elementary options in Kings Mountain, the data is straightforward — no other public school in the city performs at this level, and few in the entire state do either.