Student-to-classroom staff ratios in North Carolina's public schools have worsened 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 and teaching assistants are largely funded based on enrollment, though adjustments were frozen the past two school years as enrollment declined during the COVID-19 pandemic.