Best High Schools in North Carolina for African American Students

Check out our new feature available only on SchoolDigger: rankings for different groups of students in North Carolina!

Every year, the North Carolina Dept of Public Instruction shares test results for various student groups in each school. We use these results to find out which schools do best for each group and list them from the best to the worst.

Additionally, we also compare the performance of the subgroup to the performance of the school as a whole. This makes it easy to see if, for example, African American students are overperforming or underperforming their peers in each school.

Year after year, SchoolDigger is always the first to publish North Carolina test scores and rankings. Other sites use stale test score data that are several years old! Be in the know with the very latest performance metrics.

The list is updated annually upon the release of the EOC test scores by the North Carolina Dept of Public Instruction. The most recent update was on Wednesday, September 4, 2024.

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School														Students/Teachers											Per Pupil Expenditures (2019)							Ranking (African American vs All Students - 2024)					ID
Rank (of 437)	School	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Disc Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Per Pupil Expenditures: Total	Personnel from Federal Funds	Non-Personnel from Federal Funds	Total from Federal Funds	Personnel from State and Local Funds	Non-Personnel from State and Local Funds	Total from State and Local Funds	Statewide Rank Percentile (African American)	Statewide Rank Percentile (All Students)	Rank Percentile Difference from All Students	SchoolDigger Rating (African American)	SchoolDigger Rating (All Students)	ID
1	Highland School of Technology	Public, Magnet	9-12	1600 N Morris Street	Gastonia	28052	Gaston County	Gaston County Schools	No	Yes	No	No	(704) 810-8816	528	39	13.3	26.9%	325 (61.6%)	81 (15.3%)	78 (14.8%)	28 (5.3%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	16 (3.0%)	$10,033			$715			$9,318	99.8%	99.1%	0.71%			370162002521
2	Crossroads Arts Sciences Early College	Public	9-12	476 N Center St	Statesville	28677	Iredell County	Iredell-Statesville Schools	No	No	No	No	(704) 978-0034	250	9	28.8	26.8%	143 (57.2%)	38 (15.2%)	40 (16.0%)	18 (7.2%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	11 (4.4%)	$7,670			$103			$7,567	99.5%	99.7%	0.15%			370231003087
2	Richmond Early College High	Public	9-12	1042 W Hamlet Ave	Hamlet	28345	Richmond County	Richmond County Schools	No	No	No	No	(910) 410-1922	290	11	26.6	99.0%	169 (58.3%)	38 (13.1%)	60 (20.7%)	3 (1.0%)	6 (2.1%)	1 (0.3%)	13 (4.5%)	$6,338			$528			$5,810	99.5%	95.9%	3.60%			370387002916
4	Wake EC of Information & Biotechnologies	Public	9-12	Wake Tech Community College	Morrisville	27560	Wake County	Wake County Schools	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(919) 335-1350	204	13	15.8	17.6%	79 (38.7%)	40 (19.6%)	16 (7.8%)	59 (28.9%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	10 (4.9%)								99.1%	98.6%	0.49%			370472003637
5	Gaston Early College of Medical Sciences	Public	9-12	300 Rhodes Perimeter Drive	Dallas	28034	Gaston County	Gaston County Schools	No	No	No	No	(704) 923-8480	155	9	17.5	54.8%	73 (47.1%)	29 (18.7%)	28 (18.1%)	11 (7.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	14 (9.0%)								98.9%	96.4%	2.45%			370162003563
6	Innovation Early College High	Public	9-12	Brewster D107 Mailstop 139	Greenville	27858	Pitt County	Pitt County Schools	No	No	No	Yes	(252) 737-3860	218	11	19.6	98.6%	78 (35.8%)	62 (28.4%)	47 (21.6%)	15 (6.9%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	16 (7.3%)	$11,291			$335			$10,955	98.6%	98.1%	0.50%			370001203476
7	Scotland Early College High	Public	9-12	615 W. Covington Street	Laurinburg	28352	Scotland County	Scotland County Schools	No	No	No	No	(910) 277-4336	238	10	23.3	98.7%	112 (47.1%)	62 (26.1%)	10 (4.2%)	9 (3.8%)	31 (13.0%)	0 (0.0%)	14 (5.9%)	$10,574			$1,020			$9,554	98.4%	96.1%	2.30%			370420003007
8	STEM Early College @ NC A&T SU	Public	9-12	402 Laurel Street	Greensboro	27411	Guilford County	Guilford County Schools	No	No	No	No	(336) 370-8580	194	11	18.4	21.6%	41 (21.1%)	69 (35.6%)	9 (4.6%)	58 (29.9%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.5%)	16 (8.2%)	$10,069			$194			$9,874	98.2%		(n/a)%			370192003242
9	ABSS Early College at ACC	Public	9-12	1247 Jimmie Kerr Road	Graham	27258	Alamance County	Alamance-Burlington Schools	No	No	No	No	(336) 506-4001	231	8	28	31.2%	103 (44.6%)	35 (15.2%)	67 (29.0%)	11 (4.8%)	2 (0.9%)	0 (0.0%)	13 (5.6%)	$6,280			$165			$6,115	97.9%	99.5%	1.59%			370003002972
10	Cross Creek Early College	Public	9-12	1200 Murchison Road	Fayetteville	28301	Cumberland County	Cumberland County Schools	No	No	No	No	(910) 500-7551	252	13	19.3	52.0%	45 (17.9%)	109 (43.3%)	54 (21.4%)	10 (4.0%)	4 (1.6%)	5 (2.0%)	25 (9.9%)	$7,352			$641			$6,711	97.7%	98.4%	0.73%			370001102756

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About our rankings:

Schooldigger calculates school rankings based on EOC Biology, EOC English II, EOC Math I, EOC Math III test scores released by the North Carolina Dept of Public Instruction.
These rankings were last updated on September 4, 2024, and are based on the most recent test scores available. We update rankings as we receive new test scores from the North Carolina Dept of Public Instruction, usually on a yearly basis.
Our sources of data include the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education and the North Carolina Dept of Public Instruction.
For more information about our ranking process, please see our Ranking FAQ. Details about our methodology are here.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the North Carolina Dept of Public Instruction.