Facts & Figures: Education in North Carolina
This annual guide is designed to give you quick and easy access to key data that will support your work to improve North Carolina’s education system. Each edition of Facts & Figures is developed in partnership with dozens of stakeholders and represents the collected efforts of hundreds of hours of research, reporting, and review.
Interactive Heat Maps
District-specific data found in Facts & Figures and in our other data reports – such as heat maps related to pay supplements, poverty, attendance, per pupil expenditures, student achievement, and teacher growth data – is publicly available for review and download via our collection of interactive heat maps on Tableau Public.
Performance Measures
Performance measures like growth & achievement help determine how both students and their educators are doing and allow North Carolina’s stakeholders to identify opportunities for improvement.
North Carolina School Spending Data Explorer Tool
This data explorer allows users to identify trends in education spending and examine relationships between per pupil expenditures (PPE) and other school-level data.
Teacher Pay in North Carolina: A Smart Investment in Student Achievement (2025 Edition)
The 2025 Edition of Teacher Pay in North Carolina: A Smart Investment in Student Achievement examines how existing teacher pay structures fail to address decades-long shifts in our national workforce and are inadequate for meeting the personal and professional needs of teachers. This updated report provides an expanded set of strategic recommendations to significantly increase and improve the pay structure for teachers, additional data, and updated assets.