Student-to-teacher ratios in North Carolina's public schools have improved since the Leandro lawsuit was filed but have not improved since the state Supreme Court in 2004 ordered that the state better provide a "sound basic education."
Data are for traditional public schools. Data before 2004 are not digitally kept. WRAL News created its own database from scanned records for 1994 and 1995. *Teachers are largely funded based on enrollment, though adjustments were frozen the past two school years as enrollment declined during the COVID-19 pandemic.