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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.

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By
Kelly Hinchcliffe
, WRAL education reporter, & Tyler Dukes, WRAL investigative reporter
RALEIGH, N.C. — 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.

Search below to see how your school performed during the 2018-19 school year.

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.

Critics of the grading system, including the Public School Forum of North Carolina, say school grades are more indicative of which schools have the highest concentrations of students living in poverty than how well educators are teaching children.

In a statement Wednesday, Mark Jewell, president of the North Carolina Association of Educators, said "reducing the entire educational experience to a single letter grade has always been a futile endeavor."

“Instead of going through this A-F labeling exercise year after year, we should be giving our educators and students the resources they need to be successful, rather than wasting precious time and money on a punitive grading system that relies on high-stakes testing," Jewell wrote.

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