About Rising Leaders Academy
Rising Leaders Academy is a public school system serving Lee County, North Carolina, based in Sanford. It serves 282 students across 1 schools spanning K–8, and is classified as a town: distant district. By enrollment it is the #284 largest of North Carolina’s 334 school systems.
Size and structure
Rising Leaders Academy enrolls 282 students in 1 schools — an average of about 282 students per school. It serves grades K–8 and ranks #284 of 334 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Rising Leaders Academy, from the NCES Common Core of Data (282 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Rising Leaders Academy employs about 28 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 10.0:1 — below the North Carolina average of about 16.0:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How North Carolina funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Rising Leaders Academy are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
North Carolina assigns A–F School Performance Grades and publishes them through the NC School Report Cards, combining achievement and growth with graduation, test results and demographics. Look up Rising Leaders Academy on the NC School Report Cards.
Accreditation status
North Carolina does not require statewide accreditation of its public districts; accreditation is voluntary, and districts that pursue it generally work with Cognia, the de facto K-12 accreditor. Look up Rising Leaders Academy in the free Cognia registry.
Rising Leaders Academy vs. North Carolina
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Look up Rising Leaders Academy’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):