Billingsville Elementary

As a low-enrollment K-5 school in Charlotte, North Carolina, Billingsville Elementary caters to 356 students from grades K through 2, run under Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Billingsville Elementary sits 24% below that benchmark.

Billingsville Elementary is one of 186 schools operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, a district that caters to 145,014 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Billingsville Elementary logs that the largest single group is Black at 37%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 35% White, 21% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Billingsville Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Mecklenburg County (around 71%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Mecklenburg County put median household earnings sit near $87,005, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Mecklenburg County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), of which Billingsville Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Eastover Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Billingsville Elementary.

Billingsville Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Billingsville Elementary's enrollment has rose 11% since 2018, when it stood at 322 (now 356). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 81% to 37%.

On the community side, members of the Billingsville Elementary community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.