The top reported proficiency rate is 58% in Science. The lowest is 5% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on South Creek High
South Creek High School closed in July 2024 following a consolidation with Riverside High School. The publicly reported decision, approved unanimously by the Martin County Board of Education in May 2024, combined the district's two high schools into a single facility in Williamston called Martin County High School, driven by enrollment decline and a teacher shortage that made operating two schools unsustainable. Students from South Creek's district are now assigned to the consolidated school, altering commute times and attendance patterns for Robersonville-area families.
The data presented here reflects South Creek High's final year of operation. At that time, the school served a small enrollment of about that size across grades nine through twelve, with a notably younger ninth-grade cohort and progressively smaller classes in later grades. The student body was predominantly Black, with smaller populations of white and Hispanic students and very few other groups represented. An exceptionally high share of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the economic profile of the Robersonville area and surrounding rural Martin County.
State testing data from the school's last full year shows substantial academic challenges. In mathematics, proficiency was extremely low at the grades three through eight level, with only a very small handful of students meeting proficiency standards across a tested group of more than two hundred. In English language arts, proficiency was also very low, with roughly one in six students reaching proficiency. Science proficiency was notably higher, at well above half the tested group, suggesting differential performance across subjects. The data reflects conditions in that final year and should be read as historical. A parent interested in how the consolidated Martin County High School is performing now would want to look to that school's current results.
Robersonville itself is a small, rural town in the Inner Banks region of eastern North Carolina with a population that has declined steadily over decades. The town retains historic character from its tobacco and manufacturing past, with a compact Main Street anchored by local businesses and civic institutions like the library and town offices. However, much of daily life is car-dependent; residents describe a need to travel to nearby towns for many shopping and dining options. The housing stock is older, mostly single-family homes built in the 1950s and 1960s. Median home value in the ZIP is substantially below the state average, and affordability is strong relative to national benchmarks, reflecting the rural economic reality.
The local economy centers on food manufacturing, anchored by a Flagstone Foods facility making snack nuts and trail mixes, alongside health care and service sector employment. The town was selected for North Carolina's Small Town Main Street program in 2023 for downtown revitalization, signaling the region's pivot toward stabilizing the existing built environment rather than new-growth development.
Martin County Schools now operates a single high school serving the entire district. The district was awarded a major capital grant in October 2024 to plan and construct a new Martin County High School building, a multi-year project the district positions as a recruitment and economic-development tool. However, the district is also considering a further consolidation of its two remaining middle schools, which would merge South Creek Middle in Robersonville into Riverside Middle in Williamston. If approved for fall 2026, this would add fifteen to twenty minutes to bus times for some South Creek students and represent a second major structural change to K-12 education in the Robersonville area within two years.
For a family in Robersonville with a high school student, the immediate reality is attendance at Martin County High in Williamston. For prospective residents or families considering the area, the consolidations reflect a district in contraction, shaped by long-term population decline in rural eastern North Carolina. The new high school construction offers a forward-looking signal, but the sequence of closures and consolidations also signals the structural pressures the region faces.
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