Summary:
The Girls Leadership Academy of Wilmington district contains just one school, the Girls Leadership Academy of Wilmington, a public all-girls charter school serving grades 6–12 in Wilmington, North Carolina, with 362 students enrolled. Because the school is its own district, school and district results are identical. GLAW serves an almost entirely economically disadvantaged student body, with 98.9% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch, and it benefits from a favorable student-teacher ratio of 10.2 to 1.
The defining pattern at the Girls Leadership Academy of Wilmington is a sharp split between middle school and high school performance. On 2025–2026 middle school EOG exams, GLAW's average proficiency of about 60.2% edged out the state's 57.7% average. Eighth grade stands out as a bright spot: math proficiency reached 65.6% versus 53.0% statewide, reading hit 67.2% versus 56.1%, and science reached 75.4% versus 68.6% — the school's highest reported score. However, high school EOC results are much weaker. GLAW's average EOC proficiency of 45.5% trails the state's 58.5% by roughly 13 points. Math III is the biggest concern, with just 31.4% proficient versus 68.9% statewide, a 37.5-point gap. Biology at 48.1% and English II at 56.3% also fall below state averages.
The school's state ranking has slipped from the 50th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 29th percentile in 2025–2026, but this decline is not because GLAW's scores collapsed. Average proficiency across all subjects held essentially flat at about 55% while North Carolina's statewide average improved from 53.3% to 58.0%, meaning the school simply failed to keep pace. Chronic absenteeism sits at 37.7%, well above the state's 24.2%, and the graduation rate of 74.5% lags the state's 88.8% by more than 14 points. For parents, the picture is genuinely encouraging in the middle grades but concerning in high school. The most urgent opportunities for intervention include high school math, Biology, chronic absenteeism, and on-time graduation. Since only 362 students span seven grade levels, individual grade cohorts are small, so year-to-year swings should be interpreted cautiously.
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