CMS Student Membership Data

Student membership counts are the official student enrollment data that school districts report on a monthly basis to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI). Membership counts are available as a snapshot from the last day of the reporting month and as an average across the month, which is typically set at 20 school days.

In 2024-25, schools on the standard CMS academic calendar completed their reporting months on the following dates:

• Month 1 (20th day of school): Sept. 23, 2024. 

• Month 2: Oct. 23, 2024

• Month 3: Nov. 25, 2025

Standard calendar schools are scheduled to complete Month 4 on Jan. 9, 2025.

Membership Last Day (MLD) 

Membership Last Day (MLD) is a snapshot of membership on the last day of the reporting month. Students are not counted in MLD if they are out on an extended absence (at least 10 consecutive days) on that date. Students in Pre-K and students with visitor status (like foreign exchange students) are also not included. 

• CMS Membership Last Day by Month (2024-25).pdf
  
  
• CMS Student Membership 2024-25 (Months 1-3).xlsx

Membership Last Day (MLD) by Student Group

Membership Last Day (MLD) is also reported by student group based on the race/ethnicity and sex that the family self-reported when first enrolling their student. 

• CMS Membership by Student Group (2024-25, Month 1 original).pdf
  
  
• CMS Membership by Student Group (2024-25, Month 1 revised).pdf
  
  
• CMS Membership by Student Group (2024-25, Month 2).pdf
  
  
• CMS Student Membership 2024-25 (Months 1-3).xlsx

Average Daily Membership (ADM) 

Average Daily Membership (ADM) is an average of membership across the reporting month. ADM is the key metric for state funding allocations. ADM is based on the total number of days that students were in membership and then divided by the number of school days in the reporting month. Days when students were out on an extended absence (at least 10 consecutive days) are not included when calculating ADM. Students in Pre-K and students with visitor status (like foreign exchange students) are also not included.

• CMS Average Daily Membership by Month (2024-25).pdf

• CMS Student Membership 2024-25 (Months 1-3).xlsx

Historical Data

Historical membership data by year are available in the files below. These are based on the original submission for Month 1 (i.e., the 20th day of school). 

• CMS Average Daily Membership by Year (2015-16 through 2024-25).pdf
  
  
• CMS Membership Last Day by Year (2015-16 through 2024-25).pdf
  
  
• CMS Student Membership in Month 1 (2015-16 through 2024-25).xlsx

Historical membership data by month are available on NC DPI’s Student Accounting Data page, which has district-level data back to the 2016-17 school year and school-level data back to the 2019-20 school year.