Bruns Avenue Elementary

Bruns Avenue Elementary, a mid-tier elementary school in Charlotte, North Carolina, run under Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, educates 415 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools comprises 186 schools with combined enrollment of 145,014 students; Bruns Avenue Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Bruns Avenue Elementary reports that the largest single group is Black, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 21% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Bruns Avenue Elementary has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Mecklenburg County (around 71%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Bruns Avenue Elementary is in the bottom 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.5%; Bruns Avenue Elementary posts 27.9%, -20.7 points below that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Mecklenburg County put the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Mecklenburg County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), of which Bruns Avenue Elementary is one.

Irwin Academic Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Bruns Avenue Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 61.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 33%: 622 students in 2018 compared to 415 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 12% to 21% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 today.

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