North Carolina schools ranked by test score
| Rank | School | Level | Science | vs state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cabarrus County Schools Virtual Academy Concord · Cabarrus County Schools | Combined | 71.0% | +13.8pp |
| 2 | Nantahala School Topton · Macon County Schools | Combined | 70.0% | +12.8pp |
| 3 | Ocracoke School Ocracoke · Hyde County Schools | Combined | 69.6% | +12.4pp |
| 4 | Connect Academy West End · Moore County Schools | Combined | 61.5% | +4.3pp |
| 5 | Highlands School Highlands · Macon County Schools | Combined | 61.2% | +4.0pp |
| 6 | Boonville Elementary Boonville · Yadkin County Schools | Combined | 58.3% | +1.1pp |
| 7 | Caldwell Online Academy Lenoir · Caldwell County Schools | Combined | 49.4% | -7.8pp |
| 8 | ISS Virtual Academy Statesville · Iredell-Statesville Schools | Combined | 48.0% | -9.2pp |
| 9 | Cleveland Innovation Shelby · Cleveland County Schools | Combined | 45.1% | -12.1pp |
| 10 | JCPS Virtual Academy Smithfield · Johnston County Public Schools | Combined | 44.0% | -13.3pp |
| 11 | Buncombe County Schools Virtual Academy Asheville · Buncombe County Schools | Combined | 42.5% | -14.8pp |
| 12 | Gaston Virtual Academy Gastonia · Gaston County Schools | Combined | 40.1% | -17.1pp |
| 13 | Granville Academy Oxford · Granville County Schools | Combined | 37.8% | -19.5pp |
| 14 | Ignite Online Academy Durham · Durham Public Schools | Combined | 37.0% | -20.3pp |
| 15 | Onslow Virtual School Jacksonville · Onslow County Schools | Combined | 34.5% | -22.7pp |
| 16 | Nash Everywhere Digital Academy (NEDA) Rocky Mount · Nash County Public Schools | Combined | 34.1% | -23.1pp |
| 17 | Stanly County Virtual Education Albemarle · Stanly County Schools | Combined | 32.5% | -24.7pp |
| 18 | Surry Online Magnet School Dobson · Surry County Schools | Combined | 31.4% | -25.8pp |
| 19 | Craven Virtual Academy New Bern · Craven County Board of Education | Combined | 30.3% | -27.0pp |
| 20 | Summit Virtual Academy Salisbury · Rowan-Salisbury Schools | Combined | 26.4% | -30.9pp |
| 21 | Mattamuskeet School Swan Quarter · Hyde County Schools | Combined | 25.6% | -31.6pp |
| 22 | Harnett Virtual Academy Lillington · Harnett County Schools | Combined | 18.4% | -38.8pp |
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 Science 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.