Hickory Grove Elementary

Hickory Grove Elementary is an elementary school of reasonably sized scale in Charlotte, North Carolina, part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, serveing 643 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 38% larger than typical.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hickory Grove Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 36% Black, 7% Asian, 4% White, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

In terms of school funding signals, Hickory Grove Elementary reports 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.3:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hickory Grove Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 38.8%, a residual of -9.6 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Mecklenburg County) shows that median household earnings sit near $87,005, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Hickory Grove Elementary is one of 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students).

American Leadership Academy Charlotte is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hickory Grove Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hickory Grove Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Hickory Grove Elementary's enrollment has expanded 6% since 2018, when it stood at 606 (now 643). Black enrollment moved from 49% to 36% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.