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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Idlewild Elementary administration to hear?
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Enrollment
850
Elementary
DISTRICT 596 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG SCHOOLS·NCES 370297001228
Idlewild Elementary
7101 Idlewild Rd, Charlotte, NC 28212 · (980) 343-6411 · Mecklenburg County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL850 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 59% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
847 students
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 50 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 137 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 133 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 143 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 139 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 117 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 131 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (137) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (131).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
44.8%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
65.1%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
57.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.4%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Idlewild Elementary
Idlewild Elementary's state test result (57.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idlewild Elementary this school | 850 | 99.6% | 57.2% |
| Lawrence Orr Elementary Charlotte | 751 | 99.6% | 44.1% |
| Albemarle Road Elementary Charlotte | 711 | 99.6% | 40.3% |
| Grove Park Elementary School Charlotte | 740 | 99.6% | 44.6% |
| Hickory Grove Elementary Charlotte | 643 | 99.5% | 38.8% |
| Lebanon Road Elementary Charlotte | 488 | 99.4% | 49.1% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Idlewild Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Mecklenburg County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.2% | #590 of 1,297 | #53 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.1% | #469 of 1,296 | #51 of 115 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.8% | #792 of 1,300 | #62 of 116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 850 | #53 of 1,485 | #12 of 136 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #1,212 of 1,377 | #107 of 133 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.3% | #460 of 1,379 | #38 of 133 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.6% | #14 of 1,414 | #3 of 130 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.4% | #395 of 937 | #39 of 72 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
850
-130 (-13%) vs 2020
+43% since 1990-91, when it was 596
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 14.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 850 | 50.2 | 16.9:1 | 100% (847) |
| 2023-24 | 869 | 58.1 | 15.0:1 | 99% (861) |
| 2022-23 | 926 | 57 | 16.3:1 | 99% (921) |
| 2020-21 | 980 | 67 | 14.6:1 | 100% (977) |
| 2017-18 | 1,005 | 62.7 | 16.0:1 | 100% (1,000) |
| 2015-16 | 980 | 58 | 16.9:1 | 97% (950) |
| 2010-11 | 803 | 55 | 14.6:1 | 76% (607) |
| 2000-01 | 632 | 47 | 13.4:1 | 64% (405) |
| 1990-91 | 596 | 27 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Idlewild Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (1,005 to 850); teachers down 20% (62.7 to 50.2).
About Idlewild Elementary
Idlewild Elementary is an elementary school located in Charlotte, North Carolina, in Mecklenburg County. It enrolls 850 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5. It has 82% more students than the average for elementary schools in North Carolina (about 467).
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has 186 schools and 145,014 students, and Idlewild Elementary is one of those schools.
About 51% of the student body at Idlewild Elementary is Hispanic. Enrollment also includes 25% Black, 13% Asian, 8% White, and 3% multiracial. Among people living in Mecklenburg County, the Hispanic share is about 16%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 65%.
Idlewild Elementary has a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.9:1, with 50.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in North Carolina is 14.9:1, so this school has more students per teacher. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 100% at Idlewild Elementary. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Mecklenburg County is 71%.
On the allk12 Grade, Idlewild Elementary lands at B, ahead of 59% of North Carolina public elementary schools.
In North Carolina, Idlewild Elementary is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 57.2% actual against a predicted 48.4%.
American Community Survey estimates for Mecklenburg County show that the median household earns about $87,005 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 49%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Mecklenburg County has 226 public schools with about 170,407 students, including Idlewild Elementary.
Esperanza Global Academy is about 0.8 miles from Idlewild Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Idlewild Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 45.3%, lower than Idlewild Elementary's 57.2%.
Idlewild Elementary falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Idlewild Elementary enrolled 980 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 850. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 14.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 16.9:1.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at Idlewild Elementary. You can also rate the school on this page.
Mecklenburg County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,154,681
Census ACS
Median income
$87,005
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
226
170,407 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
- Myers Park High SchoolHigh · 3,225 students
- Ardrey Kell High SchoolHigh · 3,036 students
- South Mecklenburg High SchoolHigh · 2,534 students
- William Amos Hough HighHigh · 2,518 students
- East Mecklenburg High SchoolHigh · 2,422 students
- Palisades High SchoolHigh · 2,332 students
Other schools in Charlotte
- Myers Park High SchoolHigh · 3,225 students
- Ardrey Kell High SchoolHigh · 3,036 students
- South Mecklenburg High SchoolHigh · 2,534 students
- East Mecklenburg High SchoolHigh · 2,422 students
- Palisades High SchoolHigh · 2,332 students
- Julius L. Chambers High SchoolHigh · 2,225 students
Other Idlewild Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Idlewild Elementary. Idlewild Elementary is the largest of the 3.
- Idlewild ElementaryMemphis, TN · 593 students
- Idlewild Elementary SchoolLakewood, WA · 380 students
Nearby schools
- Esperanza Global Academy0.8 mi · 538
- Albemarle Road Elementary1.1 mi · 711
- East Mecklenburg High School1.1 mi · 2,422
- Albemarle Road Middle1.2 mi · 945
- Piney Grove Elementary1.2 mi · 441
- McClintock Middle1.5 mi · 1,056
Frequently asked questions
About Idlewild ElementaryHow many students attend Idlewild Elementary?
Idlewild Elementary enrolls approximately 850 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Idlewild Elementary serve?
Idlewild Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Idlewild Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Idlewild Elementary is approximately 16.9:1 (50 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Idlewild Elementary?
At Idlewild Elementary, the student body is approximately 8% White, 51% Hispanic, 25% Black, 13% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Idlewild Elementary in?
Idlewild Elementary is part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.