The top reported proficiency rate is 44% in Science. The lowest is 33% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Clara J Peck Elementary
Clara J Peck Elementary is a small, PreK-grade 5 public school in west-central Greensboro serving a densely concentrated low-income student body. The school enrolled just over three hundred students across seven grade levels, with nearly all students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. The student population is majority Black, with substantial Hispanic enrollment and small numbers of Asian and white students; just one student identified as Native American.
State testing results for grades 3 through 5 show that proficiency trails notably. In math, about two out of five students scored proficient or above on the End-of-Grade test. In English language arts, roughly one in three achieved proficiency. Science, assessed in a smaller grade cohort, showed proficiency just above two in five. These results place the school below the midpoint among Guilford County's districts and reflect the academic challenges many high-poverty schools face across North Carolina.
The school sits in a west Greensboro neighborhood that is part of the city's active growth cycle. Greensboro is adding housing at a rapid pace, with city leadership targeting roughly ten thousand new units by 2030 to accommodate in-migration and demographic expansion. The zip code where Peck sits shows home values in the mid-to-upper-two hundreds of thousands, with rent near thirteen hundred monthly. Housing affordability here is moderate for the region; the rent-to-income ratio sits below the national average, though mortgage payments remain steep relative to median income.
The school's location on West Florida Street places it in a neighborhood with mixed-income character. Nearby is the downtown core, which has seen substantial redevelopment and civic investment in recent years, including the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts, new cultural institutions, and the emerging Downtown Greenway. The city's economy is anchored by health care, higher education (UNCG, NC A&T, and several private colleges), manufacturing including VF Corporation and Honda Aircraft, and growing logistics and technology sectors.
Peck is part of Guilford County Schools, which in May 2022 won voter approval for a major bond to rebuild and renovate school facilities. The district identified more than a billion dollars in facility needs before that election. A companion quarter-cent sales tax to help finance the bond failed, placing more of the repayment burden on property taxes for county homeowners. The district has also shifted math instruction in its middle schools to the Open Up Resources curriculum through a partnership with UnboundEd, and aligned three policies with the state's Parents' Bill of Rights, including removing gender and sexuality instruction from K-4 classes and requiring parental notification if a student requests to use a different name or pronouns.
State testing data on special education rates and English learner enrollment were not available for Peck. The school's grade configuration means it has no high school students and therefore no graduation rate. Staff counts and attendance metrics were also absent from available data. A parent considering this school may want to reach out directly to learn more about support services, the composition of students receiving special education, English learner services, and how the school's academic recovery priorities are being implemented in the classroom.
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