Lake Norman Charter

Lake Norman Charter is a high-enrollment combined-grade school. Its address is in Huntersville, North Carolina. Enrollment is 2,222 students in 2024-25, and the school serves kindergarten through 12. The average for combined schools in North Carolina is about 731 students, so this school is 204% above average.

In federal data, the district for Lake Norman Charter is the school itself.

At Lake Norman Charter, White students make up 55% of the student body. After that, the student body is 20% Asian, 11% Black, 7% multiracial, and 6% Hispanic. Census figures show Mecklenburg County is about 45% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 64% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Lake Norman Charter employs 125.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 17.8:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 16.1:1 average for combined schools in North Carolina.

Federal survey data for Mecklenburg County show that the median household income is $87,005, roughly 49% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County, enrolling about 170,407 students in all.

The closest other public school is Merancas Middle College-CPCC, about 0.3 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools.

The NCES locale for Lake Norman Charter is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. Lake Norman Charter holds a charter, making it a public charter school.

Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 2,207 to 2,222, a small change.

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