Summary:
The city of Mooresville, North Carolina is home to 18 schools, including 10 elementary schools, 4 middle schools, 2 high schools, and 2 alternative schools. These schools serve students across a range of grade levels and are operated by the Iredell-Statesville Schools, Mooresville Graded School District, Pine Lake Preparatory, and Langtree Charter Academy.
Among the standout schools in Mooresville are Pine Lake Preparatory, a public charter school serving grades K-12 with exceptional test scores that significantly outperform the state average; Woodland Heights Elementary, a top-ranked elementary school in the state; and The Brawley School, a high-performing middle school. These schools demonstrate the potential for both charter and traditional public schools to deliver strong academic outcomes.
However, the data also reveals significant performance gaps between the highest-performing and lowest-performing schools in Mooresville, with a potential correlation between a school's socioeconomic status (as measured by free and reduced lunch rates) and its academic performance. This underscores the importance of considering school-level factors, such as leadership, teaching quality, and school culture, in addition to district-level factors, in order to understand and address these disparities.
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