Briarwood Academy

Located at 1001 Wilann Dr, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Briarwood Academy is a medium-sized elementary-level community that serves 649 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Briarwood Academy sits 39% bigger than that benchmark.

Briarwood Academy is one of 186 schools operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, a district that hosts 145,014 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Briarwood Academy logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 26% Black, 5% Asian, 2% multiracial, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. About 100% 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 somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Briarwood Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.0%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Mecklenburg County) reports that 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 Briarwood Academy is one.

KIPP Charlotte is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Briarwood Academy ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 32.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Briarwood Academy's enrollment has decreased 13% since 2018, when it stood at 749 (now 649). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 50% to 64%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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