As Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools celebrates significant gains in student achievement, many educators who helped make those results possible say they — and their pocketbooks — are stretched thinner than ever.
The latest testing data show CMS decreased its number of schools on the state’s low-performing list from 56 to 32 between the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years. It also saw marked improvements in student performance, outpacing the state as a whole.
Approximately 39% of CMS schools received A or B performance grades from the state, an increase of 7 percentage points over the 2023-24 school year. Twenty-nine CMS campuses received an A…