Hornets Nest Elementary

Located at 6700 Beatties Ford Rd, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Hornets Nest Elementary is a moderately sized primary school that teaches 601 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. That puts it 29% above the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools comprises 186 schools with combined enrollment of 145,014 students; Hornets Nest Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hornets Nest Elementary reports that 62% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 30% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Hornets Nest Elementary reports 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Hornets Nest Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Hornets Nest Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.0%.

Zooming out to the county, Mecklenburg County reports that median household earnings sit near $87,005, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Mecklenburg County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), Hornets Nest Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hornets Nest Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.4%.

Hornets Nest Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hornets Nest Elementary has edged down 4%, going from 625 students in 2018 to 601 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

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