NC National Title I Distinguished Schools

2023-2024

• Central Elementary School (Stanly County Schools)
• Sallie B. Howard School (Charter)

2022-2023

• ArtSpace Charter School (Charter)
• Union Cross Traditional Academy (Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools)

2021-2022

• ArtSpace Charter School (Charter)
• Durham Charter School (Charter)

2019-2020

• Burton Magnet Elementary School (Durham Public Schools)
• West Elementary (Cleveland County Schools)

2018-2019

• D. F. Walker Elementary (Edenton Chowan Schools)
• Early College High School (Pitt County Schools)

2017-2018

• Shuford Elementary School (Newton-Conover City Schools)
• Early College High School (Pitt County Schools)

2016-2017

• Union Elementary School (Brunswick County Schools)
• Clear Creek Elementary School (Henderson County Public Schools)

2015-2016

• Saluda Elementary (Polk County Schools)
• Union Elementary (Union County Public Schools)

2014-2015

• Henderson Collegiate (Charter School)
• District No. 7 Elementary School (Cumberland County Schools)

2013-2014

• Chocowinity Primary School (Beaufort County Schools)
• North Elementary (Cleveland County Schools)

2012-2013

• Jonathan Valley Elementary School (Haywood County Schools)
• Calvin Wiley Elementary School (Guilford County Schools)

2011-2012

• Oak Hill Elementary (Guilford County Schools)
• Bethel Elementary School (Haywood County Schools)

2010 

• Laurel Hill Elementary, Scotland County
• Kingswood Elementary, Wake County

2009

• District 7 Elementary, Cumberland County
• South End Elementary, Rockingham County

2008

• First Flight Elementary, Dare County
• Forestville Road Elementary, Wake County

2007

• Morehead City Primary, Carteret County
• Longview Elementary, Hickory Public Schools

2006

• A.B. Combs Elementary, Wake County
• Eastover-Central Elementary, Cumberland County

2005

• Clearmont Elementary, Yancey County
• St. Stephens Elementary, Catawba County

2004

• Rutherford College Elementary, Burke County
• W.M. Irvin Elementary, Cabarrus County

2003

• Lockhart Elementary, Wake County
• Hunter Elementary, Guilford County

2002

• Atlantic Elementary, Carteret County

2001

• Arthur W. Edwards Elementary, Craven County
• Englewood Elementary, Nash-Rocky Mount

2000

• Freedom Trail Elementary, Avery County
• Waccamaw Elementary, Brunswick County
• East Elementary, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County
• Carthage Elementary, Moore County

1999

• Beech Mountain Elementary, Avery County
• Goldsboro Middle, Wayne County
• Hoffman Elementary, Richmond County
• Walnut Elementary, Madison County

1998

• Baskerville Elementary, Nash-Rocky Mount
• Reidsville Intermediate, Rockingham County
• Zebulon Elementary, Wake County

1997

• J. Glenn Edwards Elementary, Lee County
• Bolton Elementary, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County
• Woodfin Elementary, Buncombe County

1996

• Sheep-Harney Elementary, Elizabeth City-Pasquotank
• Fairplains Elementary, Wilkes County

1995

• Chadbourn Elementary, Columbus County