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North Carolina Schools Are Among The Safest In America, Study Says

A new national study puts North Carolina in the top quarter when it comes to school quality/safety rankings.

Kimberly Johnson, Patch StaffVerified Patch Staff Badge

CHARLOTTE, NC -- North Carolina schools are among the safest in the nation for students, according to a new national study.

Personal finance website WalletHub used 21 metrics to measure quality and safety, giving North Carolina schools a ranking of #13 in a national study of U.S. schools.

North Carolina finished with a total quality/safety score of 57.68. Our state was ranked #6 when it came to safety and rated #27 when it came to overall quality, according to WalletHub.

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The Tar Heel state was among the top states for student safety, coming in #3 for the lowest percentage of threatened and injured high school students. It also had among the lowest bullying-incidence rates, according to the study.

When it came to median ACT scores, however, North Carolina came in near the bottom at #46.

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You can see more details of the WalletHub study, including the methodology, here.

Here is the whole list:

  1. Massachusetts 78.16
  2. New Jersey 66.92
  3. New Hampshire 64.65
  4. Wisconsin 64.25
  5. Vermont 64.09
  6. Virginia 63.77
  7. Minnesota 62.68
  8. Connecticut 61.31
  9. Iowa 61.06
  10. Maine 59.93
  11. Illinois 58.32
  12. Delaware 58.09
  13. North Carolina 57.68
  14. Colorado 56.28
  15. Kansas 56.24
  16. Pennsylvania 56.10
  17. Utah 55.95
  18. Oklahoma 55.22
  19. Maryland 54.79
  20. North Dakota 54.67
  21. Florida 54.02
  22. Indiana 54.00
  23. Ohio 53.51
  24. Washington 53.36
  25. Rhode Island 52.96
  26. New York 52.52
  27. Kentucky 51.58
  28. California 51.45
  29. Montana 51.40
  30. Nebraska 51.22
  31. Missouri 50.94
  32. Michigan 50.55
  33. Wyoming 50.40
  34. Texas 49.15
  35. South Carolina 48.58
  36. Idaho 47.44
  37. South Dakota 47.40
  38. Georgia 47.32
  39. Hawaii 47.23
  40. Nevada 40.99
  41. Arizona 40.91
  42. Tennessee 40.58
  43. Oregon 40.38
  44. Alabama 39.06
  45. Alaska 38.20
  46. Arkansas 37.97
  47. Mississippi 35.99
  48. District of Columbia 35.85
  49. West Virginia 35.42
  50. New Mexico 34.79
  51. Louisiana 27.42

Patch editor Tom Davis contributed to this report.

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