Mount Holly, NC schools
Mount Holly’s public schools score well below North Carolina’s averages: 42% of students are proficient in reading against 47.2% statewide, and 88% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.7%. Kids attend Ida Rankin Elementary School or Pinewood Elementary or Catawba Heights Elementary through grade 5, then Mount Holly Middle and one of 12 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Mount Holly’s School Grade: B-
The public schools Mount Holly’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 51% of North Carolina’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
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 Mount Holly kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Well below the state in reading
88% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #133 of 284 NC towns →
The district serving Mount Holly
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
All 4 schools in Mount Holly
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.
Schools Mount Holly kids attend in other towns
Public schools in Mount Holly’s district that are located in Gastonia, Dallas, Belmont, Mount Holly, Bessemer City and Cherryville. Which one depends on your address.