Davidson Charter Academy

Davidson Charter Academy is a single-school district in Lexington, NC, where Davidson Charter Academy is the only campus, serving Kindergarten through 8th grade with 658 students. This public charter school has trended downward in state rankings, moving from the 66th percentile and a 3-star rating in 2023-2024 to the 38th percentile in 2024-2025 and finally to the 37th percentile with a 2-star rating in 2025-2026. Its listing among 246 districts places it at the 47th percentile statewide.

Despite the overall ranking decline, several grade-level subjects stand out. The school's best showing in the most recent year is 8th grade science, where 77.8% of students scored proficient, a strong 9.2-point advantage over the state average of 68.6%. Seventh grade math is another bright spot at 63.0% proficiency, outperforming the state by 6.8 points, and the prior year's 8th grade reading class also excelled at 67.4% proficiency, far above the state's 54.2%. The area of greatest concern, however, is 4th grade math, where just 41.8% of students were proficient compared with 61.4% statewide, creating a -19.6 percentage point gap, the largest deficit in the data.

Overall trends show that math is the school's persistent weakness, running 7.9 points below the state average in 2025-26 despite some improvement from the prior year, while reading sits essentially at the state average and science remains a relative strength. Four grade levels exhibit notable year-to-year swings that point to cohort variability, ranging from a +24.5 point jump in 3rd grade reading to double-digit drops in 5th and 8th grade reading. Chronic absenteeism, at 21.8%, affects more than one in five students but is better than the state's 24.2% rate, while the student-teacher ratio of 15.8 provides a useful baseline for classroom conditions. Free/reduced lunch data was not reported, which limits deeper demographic analysis. With a strong 8th grade science program and reading scores near the state average, Davidson Charter Academy's biggest opportunity for improvement lies in elementary and middle-grade mathematics.