Highland Renaissance Academy

Set in Charlotte, North Carolina, Highland Renaissance Academy is a mid-sized elementary school, overseen by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. It enrolls 443 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools comprises 186 schools with combined enrollment of 145,014 students; Highland Renaissance Academy is among them.

On the student-mix side, Highland Renaissance Academy lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 42% Black, 5% White, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 99% of students at Highland Renaissance Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Mecklenburg County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Highland Renaissance Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 45.0%.

In the broader community, Mecklenburg County reports that median household income runs about $87,005, 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), Highland Renaissance Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Sugar Creek Charter, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Highland Renaissance Academy comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.0%.

Highland Renaissance Academy operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Highland Renaissance Academy's enrollment has increased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 430 (now 443). The Black share of enrollment edged down from 53% to 42% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Highland Renaissance Academy community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.