Grading Scale Coverage

Wake County Public Schools announces grading system in wake of coronavirus outbreak
Wake County Public Schools on Tuesday released the grading system process for students in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

Nearly 600 NC schools missed a week or more due to Hurricane Florence. How did they fare academically?
Nearly 600 North Carolina public schools missed a week or more of class after Hurricane Florence battered the state last September. The storm closed two schools permanently, damaged hundreds of others and caused more than 5,000 students to be homeless, according to the state education department.

Raleigh school celebrates academic progress but says C grade 'does not define who we are'
Fox Road Magnet Elementary School in Raleigh has won national honors as an international baccalaureate school. Its student proficiency rate has doubled over the past few years, and it has exceeded students' academic growth expectations every year. But it only received a C grade last school year.

These 119 NC schools were the top-performing public schools in 2018-19
North Carolina public schools released new data Wednesday showing what performance grades every school in the state received last school year. Of the more than 2,500 public schools in North Carolina, 119 of them received a performance grade of A and exceeded academic growth expectations.

What grade did your school receive? Search our 2018-19 NC school performance database
More than a third of North Carolina's approximately 2,500 public schools received a performance grade of A or B last school year and 28 percent of all schools exceeded academic growth expectations, according to new data released Wednesday at the State Board of Education meeting. Meanwhile, the state's four-year graduation rate rose slightly to 86.5 percent, up from 86.3 percent the year before.

Bill would keep school performance grades on 15-point scale
The North Carolina General Assembly is considering a bill that would make permanent the grading scale used in state public schools.