Huntersville Elementary

Huntersville Elementary operates as a sizable elementary campus in Huntersville, North Carolina, one of the schools within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Current enrollment sits at 867 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Huntersville Elementary sits 86% above that benchmark.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools runs 186 schools in total, collectively educating 145,014 students. Huntersville Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Huntersville Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 18% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 12% Black, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 45%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Huntersville Elementary has 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Mecklenburg County's rate of about 71%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Huntersville Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 77.6%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Mecklenburg County) logs that median household income runs about $87,005, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Mecklenburg County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), of which Huntersville Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Merancas Middle College-CPCC, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Huntersville Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Huntersville Elementary at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 61.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 7%: 810 students in 2018 compared to 867 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 65% to 53% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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