Select one of the four dashboards below to learn more about North Carolina’s 2025–26 accountability results.
Every dashboard drills down to the individual school.
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Testing
The results on state tests
State, region, district, and school.
2025–26
59% scored at grade level
up 4 points from last year
from 51% in 2021–22
Percent at grade level, 2021–22 to 2025–26
38% were ready for college or a career.
State tests review the end of grade and end of course test results for math, reading and science.
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Cohort graduation rate
The students who complete high school
State, region, district, and school.
2025–26
89.0% graduated in four years
up 1.2 points from last year
from 86.4% in 2021–22
Four-year rate, 2021–22 to 2025–26
These students started ninth grade together in 2022–23.
The cohort graduation rate is the percentage of students who finish high school within four years of entering ninth grade.
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School performance grades
The performance score and grade for each school
Every graded school and its subgroups.
2025–26
2021–22 58% 2022–23 65% 2023–24 67% 2024–25 69% 2025–26 77%Darker teal, better grade — the number at right is the share of schools earning an A, B or C.
In 2025–26, 484 more schools earned an A, B or C than in 2021–22.
School Performance Grades provide a snapshot of school performance on achievement and growth measures. The grades do not share the full story of a school.
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School long-term goals
The goals we set for 2028–29
Statewide and by school.
2025–26
Reading, grades 3–8 now 32.8 percent, 2028–29 goal 65.8 percentMath, grades 3–8 now 40.2 percent, 2028–29 goal 74.1 percentReading, high school now 40.8 percent, 2028–29 goal 71.3 percentMath, high school now 35.2 percent, 2028–29 goal 73.2 percentGraduation now 89.0 percent, 2028–29 goal 95.0 percentEnglish Learners now 35.8 percent, 2028–29 goal 60.0 percent
Bars show the share of students statewide; ticks mark the 2028–29 goals.
Long-term goals measure progress over time to a target. North Carolina set ambitious targets in the Every Student Succeeds Act State Plan for these goals. Reading and mathematics targets measure the percent of students on track for college and career.
About the work
Every number in these dashboards belongs to the public. This is how we hold ourselves accountable — sharing our progress openly with the people of North Carolina, in the strong years and the hard ones.
Behind each figure is a real school with real children. So, we publish results as they are calculated, alongside the years around them, because one number on its own was never the whole story.
Start anywhere. Every dashboard lets you narrow all the way down to a single school, and every one of them will tell you where the number came from.
Numbers tell you where we stand
Our strategic plan tracks our progress to make North Carolina’s public schools the best in the nation. It defines the work, establishes roles and actions, and reports progress to the public — the same way these dashboards do.
See the Achieving Educational Excellence strategic plan dashboard