Long Creek Elementary

Located at 9213-A Beatties Ford Rd, in Huntersville, North Carolina, Long Creek Elementary is a mid-tier elementary school that instructs 527 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Long Creek Elementary shows that 66% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest reads as 17% Hispanic, 9% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the resource side, Long Creek Elementary shows 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Mecklenburg County's rate of about 71%.

With demographic context factored in, Long Creek Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.7%.

In the area at large, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Mecklenburg County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), Long Creek Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Aspire Trade High, around 2.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Long Creek Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 41.3%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 16%: 456 students in 2018 compared to 527 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 18% to 9% across the same window.

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