7 Things to Know About the 28403 Zip Code if You are Buying a Home in Wilmington NC

7 Things to Know About the 28403 Zip Code if You are Buying a Home in Wilmington NC – Part 4

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Walt Dowdy

If you are a parent, buying a home is synomous with finding a good school.

I have a lot of work to do on The Wilmington Search in regards to writing articles on local schools and how to determine which schools are the good schools in Wilmington NC. Unfortunately, this post is not on which schools are good or bad. Rather, I want to help you get a sense of the area and which schools are located where. Since my wife has been a teacher (now stay out home mom with 2 and 1 on the way) in both New Hanover and Brunswick County School Systems, I have asked her to help me write some really useful blog posts on local schools. So look for that in the future.

Till now, I have yet to have a client who had kids in school not site schools being a top priority in their home search. Dream homes get overlooked when schools become a priority. That is because the dream home can wait. A good education cannot.

My last client had 5 kids! So if you are in the market to buy a home and schools are important to you, I have done quite a bit of research on the local schools and would be happy to help you with shortcuts on finding the right schools.

And of course, this is part of a 7 part post series on what you should know about 28403:

University of North Carolina of Wilmington
Main Shopping Areas
Parks & Recreation
Schools
Medical Facilities
General Areas to Live
Pros & Cons about Living in Midtown/28403

So let’s talk about…

4. Schools

There are 5 public schools located in Midtown. I want to stress that I am not referring to school districts but rather which schools are actually located in the 28403 zip code. I will be writing about schools in future posts. But for now, my goal is to simply acclamate you to where things are in Wilmington NC. If you want to learn more about New Hanover County Schools, click here to go to their website.

Elementary Schools

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College Park

School Website
NC Report Card (Click to see stats on School and Test Scores)
District Map

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Winter Park

School Website
NC Report Card (Click to see stats on School and Test Scores)
District Map

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Forest Hills

School Website
NC Report Card (Click to see stats on School and Test Scores)
District Map

Middle Schools

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Roland-Grise

School Website
NC Report Card (Click to see stats on School and Test Score
District Map

High Schools

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Hoggard High

School Website
NC Report Card (Click to see stats on School and Test Scores)
District Map

Isaac Bears

See the School website to learn more about this unique early college four year program which meets at UNCW. This school does not have a school district nor a NC Report Card.