At this week’s Charter Schools Review Board meeting, Brandi Gill of the Office of Charter Schools (OCS) shared a new report with disaggregated data on charter schools’ 2024-25 academic performance. “The data represents a collective performance of our charter schools across the state, highlighting both achievements and areas for continued focus,” Gill said. View her presentation.
Report figures reflect data from 206 of 213 charter schools. (Alternative charter schools and schools with insufficient data were excluded.)
Here are highlights for charters’ school performance grades:
- 30% of charter schools earned A or B grades.
- Almost 41% received C grades.
- 29% earned D or F grades.

This screenshot and others in this post are from the OCS presentation, “Academic Data Review: North Carolina Charter Schools 24-25 SY.”
Altogether, 71% of charter schools earned a school performance grade of C or better.
These are the five-year trends:
Here are some highlights on academic growth:
- 29% of charter schools exceeded growth.
- 44% met growth.
- 28% did not meet growth.
These are the five-year growth trends:
Gill also shared “Top 10” lists for school performance grades and growth. We include both of those below.

Here are the trends for continually low performing and low performing schools:
We see quite a few Coalition member schools on the Top 10 lists! Congratulations to our amazing charter schools for their strong performance and growth last year.
