North Carolina K–6 academic standards

Standards: 1,766
Subjects: 10
Source documents: 8
Sources last checked: July 26, 2026

Core academics

English language arts
418 standards
North Carolina Standard Course of Study for English Language Arts · adopted 2017
Mathematics
226 standards
North Carolina Standard Course of Study — K-8 Mathematics (2017) · adopted 2017
Science
115 standards
NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD COURSE OF STUDY K-12 Science · adopted 2023
Social studies
193 standards
North Carolina Standard Course of Study — Social Studies (2021) · adopted 2021

The arts

Specials

Health
208 standards
NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD COURSE OF STUDY Health Education K-12 · adopted 2024
Technology
82 standards
North Carolina Standard Course of Study — K-12 Computer Science (2020) · adopted 2020
Social-emotional learning
None published
NC adopts no discrete K-12 SEL content standards.
The state’s page for this subject

Sources

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction — North Carolina Standard Course of Study (NCSCOS). Mathematics (2017, impl. 2018) and English Language Arts (2017, impl. 2018) are NC's own re-presentations of the Common Core, renumbered and reworded rather than adopted verbatim; Science (2023), Health Education (2024) and Music (2024, one of the four arts disciplines) are NC's own documents. The 2024 arts are structured on the National Core Arts Standards' four artistic practices.

Standard text here is reproduced from those documents. We do not rewrite, renumber or reword a standard. Where a source is ambiguous or has been revised since we read it, the state’s document is the authority.

North Carolina K–6 academic standards

Core academics

English language arts

Mathematics

Science

Social studies

The arts

Visual art

Music

Dance

Theatre

Specials

Health

Technology

Social-emotional learning

Sources