Devonshire Elementary

Set in Charlotte, North Carolina, Devonshire Elementary is a mid-sized primary school, part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. It caters to 550 students across grades K through 5.

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

On demographics, Devonshire Elementary reports that 72% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 23% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Devonshire Elementary logs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Devonshire Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at Devonshire Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Mecklenburg County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Devonshire 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 31.6%, a residual of -16.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Mecklenburg County) records that median household earnings sit near $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. Devonshire Elementary is one of 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students).

Nearest neighbor: Cochrane Collegiate Academy, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Devonshire Elementary. On composite proficiency, Devonshire Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 12%: 624 students in 2018 compared to 550 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 58% to 72% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.

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