Amends GS 115C-12(9)c1. to require the State Board to award separate scores for school achievement and school growth (currently an overall score). Includes promotion rates and student progress in achieving English language proficiency in the school performance score. Makes conforming changes.

Amends GS 115C-83.15 to amend the calculation of the overall school achievement score. Applies current factors 1 through 3 only to schools serving students in kindergarten through eighth grade, and adds one point for each percent of students who progress in achieving English language proficiency on annual assessments in grades three through eight, one point for each percent of students who are promoted from the third grade to the fourth grade within four years of a student entering kindergarten, and one point for each percent of students who are promoted from the eighth grade to the ninth grade within three years of entering sixth grade. Applies current factors 4 through 10 only to schools serving any students in ninth through twelfth grade, and adds one point for each percent of students who progress in achieving English language proficiency. Deletes provisions related to using EVAAS to calculate the school performance score. Makes technical and conforming changes.

Enacts new GS 115C-83.16 (School performance indicators for the purpose of compliance with federal law). Directs the State Board of Education to use the school achievement score to satisfy the federal requirement under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act, to meaningfully differentiate the performance of schools on an annual basis. Specifies two sets of indicators, one for schools serving students in kindergarten through eighth grade, and one for schools serving students in ninth grade through twelfth grade, each related to academic achievement as measured by proficiency assessments, graduation and promotion rates, and performance on nationally normed tests of college and workplace readiness.

Makes conforming changes to GS 115C-105.37(a), GS 115C-218.65, GS 115C-238.66(11), and GS 116-239.8(14).

Provides that for school years 2017-18 and 2018-19, notwithstanding GS 115C-83.15(d), as amended by this act, the scores for school achievement and school growth shall be converted by the State Board of Education to a 100-point scale and used to determine two separate school performance grades, as specified.

Amends SL 2016-94, Section 8.19, to make a conforming change.

All sections of the act, except for the changes to GS 116-239.8(14), SL 2016-94, and the provision regarding scores for school achievement and growth for school years 2017-18 and 2018-19, apply beginning with the 2017-18 school year.