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Check out the final scores from Friday night's North Carolina high school football action across the Tar Heel State
The O’Neal School announced the creation of the Bradshaw Tuition Fund for Opportunity Scholarships, a transformative initiative made possible through the generosity of longtime O’Neal supporters and benefactors Stan and Jean Bradshaw. The program will provide 10 50% tuition scholarships to new students entering grades 9 and 10 beginning with the spring semester of the 2026-27 school year.
A tennis team practicing at the public courts directly behind its school is the kind of detail that makes rankings feel much more human to me. The latest U.S. News results put several North Carolina traditional public high schools near the top again. Unlike selective early colleges or charter schools,...
Some of the calmest acres in Raleigh sit just a few minutes from the busy downtown core, and plenty of North Carolinians drive right past them without a second look. Behind the campus gates is a small school with a big reputation for close-knit classes, friendly faces, and athletic fields worth a stroll.
The 2026 North Carolina high school football playoffs kick off this week, with first-round NCHSAA and NCISAA games scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 5 and Friday, Nov. 6. Threats of severe weather have prompted several schools to move their games to Thursday, with more schedule changes possible. This page tracks North...
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — With possible rain on Friday, some eastern North Carolina high school football playoff games. The following games are being played on Thursday: This is a developing story. WNCT will update if any more changes have been made to the playoff schedule.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Round one of high school football playoffs are here, with teams across western North Carolina looking to keep their seasons alive. News 13's Friday Football Frenzy will track scores throughout the night, with updates and photos from playoff action across the mountains. Below are the...
Changes in the North Carolina General Assembly could affect education funding at the state level.
Thousands of North Carolina child care workers could receive additional money under an $11.3 million expansion of a state salary supplement program. Gov. Josh Stein announced the three-year expansion Thursday. It will cover 39 counties affected by Hurricane Helene, including several across the Charlotte region. Workers in Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Gaston,...
Hampton County High School Hurricane football standout Ja'Shon Williams has named to the roster of the South Carolina team for the 2026 North Carolina vs. South Carolina Shrine Bowl Game on Dec. 19 in Spartanburg. This is a classic all-star football game featuring the top high school players from the...
A Robbins middle school teacher will be offering a new hands-on science experience in the classroom after receiving an $850 grant through Randolph Electric Membership Corporation’s Bright Ideas program. Brandy Enloe, who teaches at Elise Middle School, received the funding for her project, “From Fins to Flora,” which will...
Two years ago, some feared that by now, the best player on every high school sports team in America would be getting paid. It was then that a Wake County judge granted an injunction that struck down North Carolina’s ban on high school athletes being able to be paid for their name, image and likeness. Much was made at the time of the importance of establishing a means for high school athletes nationwide to have access to the same deals college kids were getting. North Carolina followed suit with other states, establishing an NIL platform for high school athletes similar to the NCAA’s wide-sweeping changes that allowed outside entities to pay the players who were responsible for generating much of the popularity, exposure and revenue enjoyed by their schools. Since the door was kicked open, high school NIL deals in North Carolina have grown somewhat, but their average payout isn’t much and their reach hasn’t been far. Pitt County this year has one athlete on an NIL deal, a first for the county. But the question remains, is the high school NIL era ever really going to catch on? “I would say as far as the big picture goes, what
Sandhills Community College, in partnership with Moore County Schools’ Career and Technical Education (CTE) Department and Habitat for Humanity of the Sandhills, is proud to announce that Union Pines High School student Connor Donathan has officially begun a Construction Site Supervisor pre-apprenticeship. Through this pre-apprenticeship program, Donathan is gaining...
The first round of the NCHSAA and NCISAA playoffs are in the book. Here’s what we saw Friday. — In Harrisburg, Hickory Ridge blew out Chapel Hill in the 7A bracket, winning 59-0. Hickory Ridge was winless two years ago and was 7-24 in the three seasons before this one. Friday, the Ragin’ Bulls notched their third straight shutout. In those wins, Hickory Ridge — which plays at East Forsyth next week — has outscored opponents 162-0. — Palisades, expected to emerge as a Mecklenburg County power this season, looked the best it has all season, dominating Ardrey Kell at home (more on that below). — Butler avenged a 22-20 regular-season-ending upset loss at Independence at home Friday. The Bulldogs beat their arch rival, 30-14, and snapped a three-game losing streak. — In Huntersville, Hopewell accomplished its goal of having a home playoff game as coach Brandon Sneed rebuilds the program, but the Titans fell to Porter Ridge, 23-8. The Pirates, who ended a three-game losing streak, led 20-0 at halftime. Corbin Donnahoo threw two touchdown passes for the Pirates (4-7). Hopewell ends its season at 5-6. — The NCISAA Division I playoffs featured a shower of routs — Cannon
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North Carolina’s largest high schools aren’t the only ones playing great football. Each week, NC Football News ranks who we believe are the top football teams in the state competing at the 1A, 2A and 3A levels (schools with roughly 800 students or fewer). We call our rankings...
State education leaders want to ease up on the “aggressive” rules that would punish programs that fall short on meeting standards for training new North Carolina public school teachers. The state has spent the last nine years developing an accountability model to evaluate the effectiveness of educator preparation programs (EPPs). On Thursday, the State Board of Education approved a report asking lawmakers to allow multiple changes to the model, including giving programs more time to fix problems before they receive sanctions that could cause them to shut down. “North Carolina’s EPPs are critical partners in educating our state’s 1.5 million K-12 public school students,” the report says. “The 89 approved EPPs in North Carolina — 84% of which are affiliated with our state’s public and private colleges and universities — prepare thousands of K-12 educators.” The remaining programs are run by a range of groups, including private organizations, school districts and charter schools. Legislators press for accountability model Legislation dating back to 2017 requires the State Board of Education to develop a model for evaluating how well the programs are training K-12 educators. In 2019, state lawmakers added requirements that the programs be graded on the test results of the
The FBI is still carrying out investigations surrounding COVID loan fraud.
Every five years, state law requires that local boards of education submit their long-range plans for “meeting school facility needs” to the State Board of Education. The reports are then aggregated by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction (DPI) into a statewide summary, which is submitted to the General Assembly to shape their decisions regarding fiscal allocations in the state budget to potentially meet these school needs.
EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA — The votes are in, and J.H. Rose has claimed the top spot in the final News 12 High School Football Poll of the season as teams prepare for the start of the state playoffs this week. Three public school teams finished the regular season undefeated:...
