@Data10 charter schools in NC are exempt from most laws that apply to general publics including ranking, transportation and meals. NC school of math and science is literally taking the top couple hundred kids in a state with 10 million people in their junior and senior years who already are 99%tile testers (PSATs). They get like 5 kids a year into MIT and their web site said they have 74-95 national merit scholars in a single class. (most public high schools have 0-5). Anyway I rest my case.
Literally someone who went to NCSSM @Dolemite told you they don’t rank and that’s still the current policy.
I just checked UNC’s class profile and they claim 14% of UNCs 2018 incomings ranked 1 or 2 in their class. Make’s it crazy hard to get in from wake county but much easier from the rural ones.