Lake Wylie Elementary

Located at 13620 Erwin Rd, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Lake Wylie Elementary is a medium-sized K-5 school that educates 633 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 36% above the state mean of about 467.

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

In terms of who attends, Lake Wylie Elementary shows that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 31% Black, 14% White, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Lake Wylie Elementary logs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.7:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Lake Wylie Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 53.5%, a residual of +5.0 points.

Zooming out to the 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 roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Mecklenburg County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), Lake Wylie Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Southwest Middle School, roughly 1.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lake Wylie Elementary. On composite proficiency, Lake Wylie Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.7%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lake Wylie Elementary has remained close to its prior level, going from 640 students in 2018 to 633 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 31% to 43%. Class-load math has grew: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

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