North Carolina schools ranked by test score
| Rank | School | Level | Reading | vs state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Connect Academy West End · Moore County Schools | Combined | 72.9% | +21.1pp |
| 2 | Ocracoke School Ocracoke · Hyde County Schools | Combined | 71.0% | +19.2pp |
| 3 | Cleveland Innovation Shelby · Cleveland County Schools | Combined | 70.4% | +18.6pp |
| 4 | Caldwell Online Academy Lenoir · Caldwell County Schools | Combined | 67.7% | +15.9pp |
| 5 | Cabarrus County Schools Virtual Academy Concord · Cabarrus County Schools | Combined | 64.8% | +13.1pp |
| 6 | Highlands School Highlands · Macon County Schools | Combined | 62.8% | +11.0pp |
| 7 | Gaston Virtual Academy Gastonia · Gaston County Schools | Combined | 61.2% | +9.4pp |
| 8 | Buncombe County Schools Virtual Academy Asheville · Buncombe County Schools | Combined | 56.8% | +5.0pp |
| 9 | JCPS Virtual Academy Smithfield · Johnston County Public Schools | Combined | 55.3% | +3.5pp |
| 10 | Nash Everywhere Digital Academy (NEDA) Rocky Mount · Nash County Public Schools | Combined | 54.8% | +3.0pp |
| 11 | ISS Virtual Academy Statesville · Iredell-Statesville Schools | Combined | 54.4% | +2.6pp |
| 12 | Craven Virtual Academy New Bern · Craven County Board of Education | Combined | 51.6% | -0.2pp |
| 13 | Nantahala School Topton · Macon County Schools | Combined | 51.4% | -0.4pp |
| 14 | Onslow Virtual School Jacksonville · Onslow County Schools | Combined | 50.8% | -1.0pp |
| 15 | Granville Academy Oxford · Granville County Schools | Combined | 50.7% | -1.1pp |
| 16 | Surry Online Magnet School Dobson · Surry County Schools | Combined | 46.1% | -5.7pp |
| 17 | Ignite Online Academy Durham · Durham Public Schools | Combined | 45.6% | -6.2pp |
| 18 | Harnett Virtual Academy Lillington · Harnett County Schools | Combined | 40.0% | -11.8pp |
| 19 | Boonville Elementary Boonville · Yadkin County Schools | Combined | 39.0% | -12.8pp |
| 20 | Summit Virtual Academy Salisbury · Rowan-Salisbury Schools | Combined | 38.9% | -12.9pp |
| 21 | Mattamuskeet School Swan Quarter · Hyde County Schools | Combined | 36.8% | -15.0pp |
| 22 | Stanly County Virtual Education Albemarle · Stanly County Schools | Combined | 35.0% | -16.8pp |
About this ranking
Schools are ranked by the percentage of students who scored at or above the NC EOG / EOC % Grade Level Proficient threshold on the latest available NC EOG / EOC Reading test (school year 2024-25). A higher percentage is better.
Only public schools with a reasonable cohort size are included (at least 50 total students enrolled, since the source file does not include per-subject student counts), so very small programs and special-purpose centers are filtered out.
The state average shown above is enrollment-weighted: we multiply each school's score by how many of its students tested, sum those across every public school in North Carolina, and divide by the total students tested. This way a big school counts more than a tiny one in the typical-student average.