Briar Chapel, NC schools
Briar Chapel’s public schools score above North Carolina’s averages: 51% of students are proficient in reading against 47.2% statewide, and 87% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.7%. Kids attend one of 11 schools through grade 8, then Margaret B. Pollard Middle and one of 4 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Briar Chapel’s School Grade: B
The public schools Briar Chapel’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 55% of North Carolina’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on North Carolina’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of North Carolina only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in North Carolina with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Briar Chapel kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Above the state in reading
87% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #173 of 284 NC towns →
The district serving Briar Chapel
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Briar Chapel
There’s no college in Briar Chapel, but 17 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, 7.1 miles away.
7 more within 30 miles.
Straight-line distance from the center of Briar Chapel. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.
All 3 schools in Briar Chapel
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.
Schools Briar Chapel kids attend in other towns
Public schools in Briar Chapel’s district that are located in Pittsboro, Siler City, Chapel Hill, Bear Creek, Goldston, Bennett and Moncure. Which one depends on your address.