Gov's Village STEM (Upper)

As a mid-tier 6-8 campus in Charlotte, North Carolina, Gov's Village STEM (Upper) caters to 684 students from grades 5 through 8, one of the schools within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

Gov's Village STEM (Upper) is one of 186 schools operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, a district that works with 145,014 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Gov's Village STEM (Upper) records that 58% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest consists of 31% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Gov's Village STEM (Upper) higher than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Mecklenburg County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Gov's Village STEM (Upper) performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 46.7%, a residual of -1.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, Mecklenburg County reports that 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%. Across Mecklenburg County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), Gov's Village STEM (Upper) is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Gov's Village STEM (Lower), around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Gov's Village STEM (Upper) comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 42.8%.

Gov's Village STEM (Upper) operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Gov's Village STEM (Upper) has shrank 35%, going from 1,052 students in 2018 to 684 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 17% to 31% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Gov's Village STEM (Upper) typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.