Kennedy Middle

Kennedy Middle is a big middle-grades school in Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the schools within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. The school works with 990 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 64% larger than typical.

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

Demographically, Kennedy Middle lists that 41% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 39% Black, 8% Asian, 7% White, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Kennedy Middle has 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Kennedy Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Kennedy 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Kennedy Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.4%; this one delivers 50.9%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Mecklenburg County) records that median household earnings sit near $87,005, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Mecklenburg County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), Kennedy Middle is one campus in the mix.

Steele Creek Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kennedy Middle. On composite proficiency, Kennedy Middle comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 41.4%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 978 students in 2018 compared to 990 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 15% to 7% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

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