Eastway Middle

Eastway Middle operates as a medium-sized intermediate school in Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the schools within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Current enrollment sits at 849 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 40% larger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 605 students.

Eastway Middle is one of 186 schools operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, a district that serves 145,014 students overall.

Demographically, Eastway Middle records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment. Other groups include 26% Black, 3% Asian, 3% White. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Eastway Middle higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Mecklenburg County's rate of about 71%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Eastway Middle is in the bottom 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.5%; Eastway Middle posts 30.4%, -18.1 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Mecklenburg County) shows that 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. Eastway Middle is one of 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students).

The closest other public school is Merry Oaks International Academy, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Eastway Middle ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 50.3%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 5%: 805 students in 2018 compared to 849 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 54% to 67%. Class-load math has rose: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

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