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Skippers Corner, NC schools

Skippers Corner’s public schools score well above North Carolina’s averages: 53% of students are proficient in reading against 47.2% statewide, and 88% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.7%. Kids attend one of 25 schools through grade 8, then one of 8 middle schools and one of 6 high schools.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

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Skippers Corner’s School Grade: B

The public schools Skippers Corner’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 59% of North Carolina’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.

B+Test scoresB-Graduation
North Carolina school districts we grade (318)Better than 59%
Lower resultsHigher results
North Carolina towns with similar household incomes (307)Better than 70%
High confidence. Built on 12,667 tested students and a graduating class of 2,065; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
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.
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Where Skippers Corner kids go to school

Grades PK–8
25 schoolsDepends on your address · see the list New Hanover County Schools
Grades 8
8 middle schoolsDepends on your address · see the list New Hanover County Schools
Grades 9–12
6 high schoolsDepends on your address · see the list New Hanover County Schools

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21

Well above the state in reading

Reading (grades PK–12, New Hanover County)53%
State average 47.2%
Math (grades PK–12, New Hanover County)48%
State average 41.9%
Graduation · class of 2020

88% graduate on time

Graduation rate
88%
NC: 87.7%
Graduating class
2,065
students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #133 of 284 NC towns →

Districts

The district serving Skippers Corner

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Within reach

Colleges near Skippers Corner

There’s no college in Skippers Corner, but 4 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Miller-Motte College-Wilmington in Wilmington, 6.1 miles away.

Cape Fear Community CollegeCommunity college · Public · Wilmington6.3 mi9,738 studentsUniversity of North Carolina WilmingtonUniversity or college · Public · Wilmington7.4 mi13,624 students

Straight-line distance from the center of Skippers Corner. 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.

We don’t have any schools located in Skippers Corner yet.

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