Charlotte-Mecklenburg Academy

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Academy, an one-room-style combined-grade school in Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the schools within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, works with 91 students, covering grades K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 88% below the state mean of about 731.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Academy reports that the largest single group is Black, at 63% of enrollment. Other groups include 15% White, 15% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 4.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 97% of students at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Mecklenburg County's rate of about 71%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Mecklenburg County indicate median household income runs about $87,005, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Mecklenburg County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), of which Charlotte-Mecklenburg Academy is one.

Statesville Road Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 90 students in 2018 compared to 91 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 3% to 15%.

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