Mallard Creek Elementary

Mallard Creek Elementary is a K-5 school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Charlotte, North Carolina, operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, works with 490 students in grades K through 5.

Mallard Creek Elementary is one of 186 schools operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, a district that caters to 145,014 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mallard Creek Elementary logs that Black students make up the majority at 70%. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 6% 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, Mallard Creek Elementary logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. An estimated 97% of students are eligible 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 meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Mallard Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.2%, the actual is 61.8%, a residual of +12.6 points.

In the broader community, Mecklenburg County reports that median household earnings sit near $87,005, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Mecklenburg County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), of which Mallard Creek Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is TMSA Charlotte, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mallard Creek Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.9%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Mallard Creek Elementary's enrollment has decreased 23% since 2018, when it stood at 633 (now 490). The Asian share of enrollment decreased from 12% to 3% over that span.

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