Public Schools in North Carolina
2,703 schools · 332 districts · 1,541,722 students
Largest Schools in North Carolina
School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.
Myers Park High School
Charlotte
Ardrey Kell High School
Charlotte
South Mecklenburg High School
Charlotte
NC Virtual Academy
Durham
Apex Friendship High
Apex
Leesville Road High
Raleigh
William Amos Hough High
Cornelius
Enloe High
Raleigh
Apex High
Apex
Panther Creek High
Cary
Frequently Asked Questions
North Carolina has 2,703 public schools across 332 districts, serving 1,541,722 students.
The largest school in North Carolina is Myers Park High School with 3,593 students. North Carolina has 2,703 public schools overall.
The average proficiency rate is 43%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.
School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.