Lawrence Orr Elementary

Lawrence Orr Elementary is a big elementary school in Charlotte, North Carolina, run under Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. The school works with 751 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Lawrence Orr Elementary sits 61% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, which oversees 186 schools and 145,014 students, Lawrence Orr Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Lawrence Orr Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 55% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 31% Black, 7% Asian, 4% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Lawrence Orr Elementary reports 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Mecklenburg County (around 71%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Lawrence Orr Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.4%; this one delivers 44.1%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Mecklenburg County) shows that median household earnings sit near $87,005, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Mecklenburg County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), of which Lawrence Orr Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Windsor Park Elementary, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lawrence Orr Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 40.0%.

Lawrence Orr Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Lawrence Orr Elementary's enrollment has expanded 7% since 2018, when it stood at 699 (now 751). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 41% to 55% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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