Albemarle Road Elementary

Albemarle Road Elementary is one of the well-populated K-5 schools in Charlotte, North Carolina, operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, with 711 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 52% larger than typical.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools runs 186 schools in total, collectively educating 145,014 students. Albemarle Road Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Albemarle Road Elementary logs that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 22% Black, 11% Asian, 3% White. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Mecklenburg County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Albemarle Road Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.4%; this one delivers 40.3%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Mecklenburg County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Mecklenburg County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), Albemarle Road Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Albemarle Road Middle, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Albemarle Road Elementary. On composite proficiency, Albemarle Road Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.9%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Albemarle Road Elementary has fell 34%, going from 1,084 students in 2018 to 711 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 53% to 63% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

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