Northern Granville Middle

Set in Oxford, North Carolina, Northern Granville Middle is a low-enrollment middle-grades school, one of the schools within Granville County Schools. It educates 495 students across grades 6 through 8.

Granville County Schools runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 6,402 students. Northern Granville Middle is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Northern Granville Middle lists that the largest single group is Black, at 55% of enrollment. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 18% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 29% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Northern Granville Middle falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 49.9%; this one comes in at 30.0%, -19.9 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Granville County indicate median household income runs about $71,111, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Granville County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,376 students), Northern Granville Middle is one campus in the mix.

J. F. Webb High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Northern Granville Middle at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 49.4%.

Northern Granville Middle operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 33%: 372 students in 2018 compared to 495 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 26% to 18%. Class-load math has widened: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 in 2025.

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