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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Roseboro-Salemburg Middle administration to hear?
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Enrollment
394
Middle
DISTRICT 445 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAMPSON COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370414001679
Roseboro-Salemburg Middle
305 West Pleasant Street, Roseboro, NC 28382 · (910) 525-4764 · Sampson County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL394 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 13% of North Carolina public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public middle schools
Student : Teacher
21.9:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.1:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
391 students
DISTRICT 98% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 124 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 143 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 127 | 32% |
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
36.1%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
32.5%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
34.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Roseboro-Salemburg Middle
Roseboro-Salemburg Middle's state test result (34.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roseboro-Salemburg Middle this school | 394 | 99.2% | 34.5% |
| Kannapolis Middle School 6 Kannapolis | 358 | 99.2% | 29.5% |
| Butner-Stem Middle Butner | 391 | 99.2% | 43.9% |
| East Iredell Middle Statesville | 328 | 99.1% | 25.1% |
| Grantham Middle Goldsboro | 301 | 99.0% | 48.9% |
| Third Creek Middle Statesville | 402 | 99.3% | 21.7% |
Matched among North Carolina middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Roseboro-Salemburg Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.5% | #399 of 463 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.5% | #385 of 461 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.1% | #375 of 463 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 394 | #384 of 478 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.9:1 | #454 of 456 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.3% | #55 of 456 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.2% | #192 of 472 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.2% | #200 of 300 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
394
-15 (-4%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 462
Student : Teacher
21.9:1
was 15.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 394 | 18 | 21.9:1 | 99% (391) |
| 2023-24 | 420 | 23.5 | 17.9:1 | 99% (417) |
| 2022-23 | 406 | 24.5 | 16.6:1 | 99% (403) |
| 2020-21 | 409 | 26 | 15.7:1 | 99% (406) |
| 2017-18 | 429 | 27.1 | 15.8:1 | 97% (418) |
| 2015-16 | 396 | 27 | 14.7:1 | 74% (295) |
| 2010-11 | 399 | 27 | 14.8:1 | 77% (309) |
| 2000-01 | 426 | 28 | 15.2:1 | 56% (240) |
| 1990-91 | 462 | 31 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Roseboro-Salemburg Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (429 to 394); teachers down 34% (27.1 to 18).
About Roseboro-Salemburg Middle
Roseboro-Salemburg Middle is a low-enrollment middle-grades school serving families in Roseboro, North Carolina. The school has 394 students in 2024-25 across grades 6 through 8. That compares with an average of about 605 students for middle schools in North Carolina.
Federal data list 18 schools in Sampson County Schools, with 7,986 students enrolled.
The largest group at Roseboro-Salemburg Middle is Hispanic students, at 34%. Other students are 32% White, 27% Black, and 6% multiracial. That is higher than the 22% Hispanic share among all Sampson County residents. The diversity index for Roseboro-Salemburg Middle is 70%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
For every teacher at Roseboro-Salemburg Middle, there are about 21.9 students; the school has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, middle schools in North Carolina average 15.9:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 99%. The average for public schools in Sampson County is similar, at 99%.
Among North Carolina public middle schools, Roseboro-Salemburg Middle outscored 13%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with North Carolina schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Roseboro-Salemburg Middle's results are 14.0 points below predicted: 34.5% against 48.5%.
In the surrounding county, Sampson County, median household income comes to about $52,432, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 16% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 15%. The county has 23 public schools and about 11,001 students.
Roseboro-Salemburg Middle is about 0.6 miles from Roseboro Elementary, its nearest public school. Roseboro-Salemburg Middle has 3 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 54.4% on proficiency, and Roseboro-Salemburg Middle is below that at 34.5%.
NCES lists the school's locale as Rural: Distant. That means it sits in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
In 2020-21, Roseboro-Salemburg Middle enrolled 409 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 394. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 15.7:1 in 2020-21 to 21.9:1 in 2024-25.
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Sampson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
59,470
Census ACS
Median income
$52,432
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
16%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
11,001 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Sampson County Schools
- Midway HighHigh · 726 students
- Midway MiddleMiddle · 584 students
- Midway ElementaryElementary · 539 students
- Salemburg ElementaryElementary · 502 students
- Union HighHigh · 494 students
- Lakewood HighHigh · 475 students
Other schools in Roseboro
- Roseboro ElementaryElementary · 369 students
- Beaver Dam ElementaryElementary · 87 students
Nearby schools
- Roseboro Elementary0.6 mi · 369
- Lakewood High2.9 mi · 475
- Salemburg Elementary4.5 mi · 502
- Beaver Dam Elementary5.4 mi · 87
- Sampson Early College High9.0 mi · 229
- Sampson Middle10.4 mi · 703
Frequently asked questions
About Roseboro-Salemburg MiddleHow many students attend Roseboro-Salemburg Middle?
Roseboro-Salemburg Middle enrolls approximately 394 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Roseboro-Salemburg Middle serve?
Roseboro-Salemburg Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Roseboro-Salemburg Middle?
Approximately 21.9:1 students per teacher at Roseboro-Salemburg Middle.
What is the student diversity at Roseboro-Salemburg Middle?
Student demographics at Roseboro-Salemburg Middle are roughly 32% White, 34% Hispanic, 27% Black, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Roseboro-Salemburg Middle?
Roseboro-Salemburg Middle is overseen by Sampson County Schools in Sampson County.
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