The top reported proficiency rate is 95% in Science. The lowest is 88% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Magellan Charter
Magellan Charter is a small charter school serving grades three through eight in north Raleigh, with an enrollment of about four hundred students distributed evenly across all six grades. The school is located on Baileywick Road in a northeastern part of the city.
Academically, Magellan shows strong performance on North Carolina state assessments. In math, proficiency runs high, with a large majority of students reaching the proficient level or above. English language arts results are solid and slightly lower than math. Science proficiency is the strongest area, with students testing near universal mastery across the tested grades. These results position the school well on absolute measures of reading, writing, and math.
The student body is predominantly white, with smaller Asian, multiracial, Hispanic, and Black representation, and very few American Indian students. The specific breakdown by race is recorded in the data section. Free-or-reduced-price lunch eligibility data was not provided, so a parent looking to understand economic diversity at the school may want to ask the school directly about that. Special education enrollment figures and English learner counts were also not reported, so detail on how the school supports students with disabilities or language needs is not available from this data.
Magellan is structured as a traditional regular public school operating under charter status. It does not carry magnet designation. The school serves middle grades, so there is no graduation rate to report. State testing data was available only for grades three through eight as a combined cohort, not broken out by grade, so parents cannot see performance trends across individual grade levels.
Raleigh itself is North Carolina's capital, a city blending dense downtown urban development with car-dependent suburban neighborhoods spreading outward. The economy centers on technology, healthcare, higher education, and government, with major employers including WakeMed, IBM, Cisco, Red Hat, and nearby Research Triangle Park. The city is in a significant growth phase, with multiple large mixed-use projects underway downtown and at Midtown and other nodes. Housing values in the school's zip code have been stable, and rents are typical for the greater Raleigh market.
The school is part of Wake County, which includes many districts and schools across the region. Because Magellan operates as a single-school charter serving only one grade band, standard county comparison metrics do not apply, so the school cannot be positioned directly against other Wake County districts using those tools.
No recent major changes to the school's operations, curriculum, or governance were found, so the school appears to be operating in a steady state. Parents interested in learning more about the school's charter status, enrollment practices, or recent decisions would benefit from visiting the school's website or contacting the school directly.
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