Lansdowne Elementary

Set in Charlotte, North Carolina, Lansdowne Elementary is a mid-sized primary school, one of the schools within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. It works with 573 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 23% above the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools comprises 186 schools with combined enrollment of 145,014 students; Lansdowne Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Lansdowne Elementary shows that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 24% Black, 18% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 37% of students at Lansdowne Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Mecklenburg County (around 71%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lansdowne Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.5%, the actual is 65.3%, a residual of -2.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Mecklenburg County) reports that median household income runs about $87,005, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Mecklenburg County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), of which Lansdowne Elementary is one.

Carmel Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lansdowne Elementary. On composite proficiency, Lansdowne Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.5%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 4%: 552 students in 2018 compared to 573 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 36% to 24%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.