Elizabeth Traditional Elem

Elizabeth Traditional Elem, an average-sized K-5 school in Charlotte, North Carolina, run under Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, instructs 409 students, covering grades K through 5.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools runs 186 schools in total, collectively educating 145,014 students. Elizabeth Traditional Elem is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Elizabeth Traditional Elem lists that 64% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder looks like 16% Hispanic, 11% White, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Elizabeth Traditional Elem has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Mecklenburg County (around 71%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Elizabeth Traditional Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 65.1%.

In the area at large, census data for Mecklenburg County shows the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Elizabeth Traditional Elem is one of 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students).

Central Piedmont Early College is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Elizabeth Traditional Elem. On composite proficiency, Elizabeth Traditional Elem comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 58.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Elizabeth Traditional Elem has declined 21%, going from 521 students in 2018 to 409 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 18% to 11% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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