James Martin Middle

As a middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campus in Charlotte, North Carolina, James Martin Middle educates 659 students from grades 6 through 8, part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

James Martin Middle is one of 186 schools operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, a district that instructs 145,014 students overall.

Looking at the student body, James Martin Middle reports that the most-represented group is Black (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 38% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 30% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at James Martin Middle 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, James Martin Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 32.8%, a residual of -15.7 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Mecklenburg County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. James Martin Middle is one of 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students).

Julius L. Chambers High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts James Martin Middle at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 48.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. James Martin Middle's enrollment has shrank 37% since 2018, when it stood at 1,043 (now 659). Hispanic enrollment moved from 28% to 38% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 in 2025.

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