The top reported proficiency rate is 69% in Science. The lowest is 43% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Englewood Elementary
Englewood Elementary serves grades three through five in Rocky Mount and is a regular public school in Nash County Public Schools. The school is located in a working- and middle-class city with a mix of historic neighborhoods and modern subdivisions, where healthcare, manufacturing, and logistics employment dominate. The downtown core is undergoing redevelopment, including the Rocky Mount Mills mixed-use project, though most residential areas and schools are built on separate suburban campuses across the city rather than clustered near downtown.
Englewood's enrollment is small, with students across three grades. Nearly all students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the economic demographics of the neighborhoods the school serves. The student body is predominantly Black, with a White minority and smaller populations of Hispanic students and other groups.
On state end-of-grade testing, Englewood's math proficiency is in the mid-range, with just over half of students meeting or exceeding proficiency. English language arts proficiency is lower, with less than half of students proficient. Science proficiency is notably stronger, with about two-thirds of students proficient; however, North Carolina changed the science assessment between recent school years, so year-to-year comparison is not safe. The math and ELA results suggest that reading and writing are areas where the school is working with students who face material challenges in acquiring these skills, while science instruction has shown relative strength.
Englewood is not a school with advanced or specialized programs; no information on special education services, English learner support, staff size, or attendance data was available. The school's academic profile is that of a Title I elementary serving a low-income neighborhood, and parents should speak directly with the school about the specific instructional approaches, supports for struggling readers and writers, and how the school works with families on literacy at home.
The Nash County Public Schools district underwent a significant reorganization starting in the 2024-25 school year, when about a quarter of the district's students in east Rocky Mount were transferred to Edgecombe County Public Schools as part of a court-ordered demerger. Four schools left the district, attendance zones were redrawn, and the school board shrank from eleven to seven members. For families with children in Englewood or considering the school, that demerger is now complete, and the remaining district is focused on managing the boundary changes and supporting schools in the reconfigured system. The district secured a large capital grant to build a new middle school in southern Nash County to address overcrowding, a signal of growth pressures coming from the Wake County and I-95 corridor. Additionally, beginning August 2025, the district implemented a stricter cell phone and device policy requiring all phones and electronic devices to be powered off and stored out of sight for the entire school day in elementary and middle schools.
Housing in the Rocky Mount area is affordable. Median home values are below state benchmarks, and monthly mortgage costs are manageable for households with modest income. Rents are also affordable relative to local income. The city's population is projected to remain roughly flat, though downtown has seen real investment in mixed-use housing and commercial redevelopment.
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