David Cox Road Elementary

David Cox Road Elementary operates as a reasonably sized K-5 school in Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the schools within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Current enrollment sits at 604 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so David Cox Road Elementary sits 29% larger than that benchmark.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools runs 186 schools in total, collectively educating 145,014 students. David Cox Road Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, David Cox Road Elementary lists that 66% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% White. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 30% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, David Cox Road Elementary has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Mecklenburg County (around 71%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, David Cox Road Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 38.4%, a residual of -10.1 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Mecklenburg County put 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. David Cox Road Elementary is one of 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students).

Nearest neighbor: Croft Community School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around David Cox Road Elementary. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), David Cox Road Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 54.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 7%: 567 students in 2018 compared to 604 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 17% to 22% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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