Elon Park Elementary

Located at 11425 Ardrey Kell Rd, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Elon Park Elementary is a substantial elementary-level community that teaches 732 students (grades K through 5), part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 57% bigger than the state mean of about 467.

Elon Park Elementary is one of 186 schools operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, a district that enrolls 145,014 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Elon Park Elementary shows that the largest single group is Asian at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 30% White, 14% Hispanic, 13% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 6% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 22% of students at Elon Park Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Mecklenburg County (around 71%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Elon Park Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.1%, the actual is 81.8%, a residual of +9.6 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Mecklenburg County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Elon Park Elementary is one of 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students).

The closest other public school is Knights View Elementary School, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Elon Park Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 79.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Elon Park Elementary has ticked down 34%, going from 1,113 students in 2018 to 732 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 45% to 30% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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