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Public Schools of Robeson County

education organization in Lumberton, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ30288724
Source-derived summary

Public Schools of Robeson County is a school district headquartered in Lumberton, North Carolina. It operates public schools in Robeson County, with its jurisdiction being the county. As of 2019 the district had about 23,000 students.

Schools

Secondary schools

High schools

Fairmont High School

Lumberton High School

Purnell Swett High School

Red Springs High School

St. Pauls High School

Robeson Early College High School

Middle schools

Fairmont Middle School

L. Gilbert Carroll Middle School

Littlefield Middle School (see Littlefield High School)

Lumberton Jr. High School

Orrum Middle School

Pembroke Middle School

Red Springs Middle School

South Robeson Middle School

St. Pauls Middle School

Townsend Middle School

Primary schools

Deep Branch Elementary School

East Robeson Elementary School

Green Grove Elementary School

W.H. Knuckles Elementary School

Long Branch Elementary School

Magnolia Elementary School

Rowland Norment Elementary School

Oxendine Elementary School

Parkton Elementary School

Pembroke Elementary School

Peterson Elementary School

Piney Grove Elementary School

Prospect Elementary School

Rex-Rennert Elementary School

Rosenwald Elementary School

St. Pauls Elementary School

Tanglewood Elementary School

Union Chapel Elementary School

Union Elementary School

Other facilities

Career Center

Indian Education Resource Center

Learning Accelerated Program

PSRC Online

Shining Stars Preschool

Facilities

The headquarters was located in the Comtech Technology Park in Lumberton, along Interstate 95. It previously had a different office, but Hurricane Matthew damaged the facilities in 2016. The University of North Carolina Pembroke temporarily hosted the finance department of the school district.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Public Schools of Robeson County” is education organization in Lumberton, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Public, Schools and Robeson, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Public, Schools and Robeson is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “education organization in Lumberton, United States” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q30288724. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019 and 2016.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Locating named record creators
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Public Schools of Robeson County”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Public Schools of Robeson County primary sources, Public Schools of Robeson County archive and Public research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Public Schools of Robeson County”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Public Schools of Robeson County” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.