The 2020 North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction election was held on November 3, 2020, to elect the North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction, concurrently with elections to the United States Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, governor, Council of State, and other state and local elections. Primary elections were held on March 3, 2020, with runoff elections being rescheduled to June 23 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Incumbent Republican superintendent Mark Johnson was eligible to run for re-election to a second term in office, but ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor instead. Republican nominee and former senior advisor on education to Pat McCrory, Catherine Truitt, defeated Democratic professor and former state senate candidate Jen Mangrum in the general election.