There are now 173 charter schools in North Carolina. After the General Assembly lifted the cap of 100 in 2010, the number of public charter schools soared. In the past four years, four new charter schools opened in Wilmington alone putting the total at six. If approved, a seventh, the Wilmington School of the Arts, will open in the fall of 2019. A recent study published by researchers at Duke University and the University of Rochester finds that of the seven North Carolina districts studied, all