Cotswold Elementary

Cotswold Elementary is one of the close-knit primary schools in Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the schools within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, with 340 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Cotswold Elementary sits 27% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 186 schools in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (145,014 students total), Cotswold Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cotswold Elementary records that the most-represented group is Black (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 34% White, 21% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Cotswold Elementary reports 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.4:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Mecklenburg County's rate of about 71%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cotswold Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.6%, the actual is 56.8%, a residual of +8.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Mecklenburg County put the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Mecklenburg County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), Cotswold Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Randolph Middle, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cotswold Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 61.5%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Cotswold Elementary's enrollment has decreased 57% since 2018, when it stood at 785 (now 340). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 54% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

On this page, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.