Dilworth Elementary School Latta Campus

Dilworth Elementary School Latta Campus is an elementary school of cozy scale in Charlotte, North Carolina, operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, works with 330 students in grades 3 through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Dilworth Elementary School Latta Campus sits 29% below that benchmark.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools comprises 186 schools with combined enrollment of 145,014 students; Dilworth Elementary School Latta Campus is among them.

On the student-mix side, Dilworth Elementary School Latta Campus logs that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 11% Black, 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 45% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Around 19% 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 lower than Mecklenburg County's rate of about 71%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Dilworth Elementary School Latta Campus performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.1%, the actual is 87.9%, a residual of +14.8 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Mecklenburg County put the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, 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 Dilworth Elementary School Latta Campus is one.

Nearest neighbor: Dilworth Elementary, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dilworth Elementary School Latta Campus ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 63.9%.

Dilworth Elementary School Latta Campus operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 51%: 672 students in 2018 compared to 330 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 21% to 11% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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