Bailey Middle

Bailey Middle is one of the well-populated 6-8 campuss in Cornelius, North Carolina, run under Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, with 1,315 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 117% above the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 605 students.

Bailey Middle is one of 186 schools operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, a district that instructs 145,014 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Bailey Middle reports that White students make up the majority at 61%. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 10% Black, 8% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 45% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Bailey Middle has 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.3:1. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 23% of students at Bailey Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Mecklenburg County (around 71%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Bailey Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.7%, the actual is 78.7%, a residual of +7.0 points.

Around the school, Mecklenburg County reports that median household income runs about $87,005, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Bailey Middle is one of 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students).

William Amos Hough High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bailey Middle comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 77.1%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Bailey Middle's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 1,612 (now 1,315). White enrollment moved from 74% to 61% across the same window.

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