Elizabeth Lane Elementary

Located at 121 Elizabeth Ln, in Matthews, North Carolina, Elizabeth Lane Elementary is an expansive elementary-level community that enrolls 702 students (grades K through 5), run under Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Elizabeth Lane Elementary sits 50% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, which oversees 186 schools and 145,014 students, Elizabeth Lane Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Elizabeth Lane Elementary reports that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 14% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 45% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Elizabeth Lane Elementary has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Elizabeth Lane Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 16% of students at Elizabeth Lane Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Mecklenburg County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Elizabeth Lane Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 74.1%; this one delivers 83.9%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Mecklenburg County) shows that median household income runs about $87,005, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Elizabeth Lane Elementary is one of 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students).

Nearest neighbor: Providence High School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Elizabeth Lane Elementary. On composite proficiency, Elizabeth Lane Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 73.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 35%: 1,088 students in 2018 compared to 702 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 7% to 14% across the same window.

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