Collinswood Language Academy

Collinswood Language Academy is an elementary-level community of high-enrollment scale in Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the schools within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, enrolling 893 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Collinswood Language Academy sits 91% above that benchmark.

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

On demographics, Collinswood Language Academy lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 60%. Beyond that, the school logs 26% White, 10% Black, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 42% of students at Collinswood Language Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Mecklenburg County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Collinswood Language Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.0%, the actual is 76.4%, a residual of +10.4 points.

In the surrounding community, Mecklenburg County reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Mecklenburg County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), Collinswood Language Academy is one campus in the mix.

Pinewood Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Collinswood Language Academy comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 48.8%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Collinswood Language Academy has increased 12%, going from 799 students in 2018 to 893 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share increased from 20% to 26%.

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