Joseph W Grier Academy

Joseph W Grier Academy operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Charlotte, North Carolina, run under Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Current enrollment sits at 529 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

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

On the student-mix side, Joseph W Grier Academy shows that the most-represented group is Black (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 42% Hispanic, 6% White, 5% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Joseph W Grier Academy higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at Joseph W Grier Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Mecklenburg County's rate of about 71%.

With demographic context factored in, Joseph W Grier Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 39.2%, a residual of -9.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Mecklenburg County shows 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%. Across Mecklenburg County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), Joseph W Grier Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Cato Middle College High School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Joseph W Grier Academy. On composite proficiency, Joseph W Grier Academy comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Joseph W Grier Academy's enrollment has shrank 31% since 2018, when it stood at 768 (now 529). Class-load math has loosened: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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