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Find your school: 2017-18 NC school performance grades

North Carolina public schools released their annual school performance grades and graduation rates at Wednesday's State Board of Education meeting. Find out how your school performed during the 2017-18 school year.

Posted 2018-09-05T13:38:00+00:00 - Updated 2018-09-06T22:14:45+00:00

NC school performance grades are announced

Kelly Hinchcliffe, WRAL education reporter,

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Tyler Dukes, WRAL investigative reporter

North Carolina public schools released their annual school performance grades and graduation rates at Wednesday's State Board of Education meeting. Search below to see how your school performed during the 2017-18 school year.

North Carolina's graduation rate stands at 86.3 percent. That's down slightly from 86.5 percent the previous school year, marking the first time in more than 10 years that the rate has dropped. But DPI officials say slight changes in how the rate is calculated mean the numbers are no longer comparable.

In 2005-06, the state's graduation rate was 68.3 percent.

All North Carolina public schools, including charter schools, have received A through F letter grades since 2013-14, when the General Assembly passed legislation requiring it. Schools are also judged on whether their students exceeded, met or did not meet academic growth expectations during the year.

To comply with new federal requirements, the state tweaked its formula for performance grades in 2018, making it difficult to compare scores for the most recent school year to previous years.

How did my school perform?

Search for your school below to find out what grade it received for the 2017-18 school year. Plus, see your school's reading and math test scores and graduation rates and find out how your school compares to the rest of the state.

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Grade

Grade breakdown

Grades are based on your school’s achievement score on state tests and other measures (80 percent) as well as students' academic growth (20 percent). The performance scores are converted to a 100-point scale, broken into 15-point increments, to determine a school letter grade of A, B, C, D or F. Schools showing a grade of "I" had insufficient data. Alternative schools are marked with "ALT," because their grades aren't publicly reported.

Component scores

Overall score

100

In 2017-18, met/did not meet/exceeded its growth expectations. In 2016-17, met/did not meet/exceeded its growth expectations. In 2015-16, this school met/did not meet/exceeded its growth expectations.

Performance by subject

Scores are based on your school's achievement score on reading and math tests (80 percent) and students' academic growth (20 percent) in grades 3 through 8. The performance scores are converted to a 100-point scale.

Reading score

Math score

Graduation rates

Rates are based on the percentage of students who graduated from your high school in four years or less.

YOUR SCHOOL

STATE

How your school compares

See how your school compares to the state. The overall score is based on your school’s achievement on state tests (80 percent) and students' academic growth (20 percent).

Overall
Score

Your school

State

Growth

Achievement

SOURCES & METHODOLOGY: School performance, growth and achievement data is provided annually by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction. State-level comparison data is calculated by taking the average number of scores, based on the total number of all schools reporting.

The performance scores are converted to a 100-point scale and then used to determine a school performance grade of A, B, C, D or F. The final grade is based on a 15-point scale:

A: 85-100
B: 70-84
C: 55-69
D: 40-54
F: Less than 40
I: Incomplete

Schools with N/A, I (Insufficient data), ALT or a blank indicates that the school does not have tested grades or sufficient data for reporting.

Interactive by Tyler Dukes // Analysis by Kelly Hinchcliffe