Mallard Creek High School

Set in Charlotte, North Carolina, Mallard Creek High School is a high-enrollment four-year high school, run under Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. It caters to 2,068 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 761 students each, so Mallard Creek High School sits 172% bigger than that benchmark.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools runs 186 schools in total, collectively educating 145,014 students. Mallard Creek High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Mallard Creek High School lists that Black students make up the majority at 69%; the rest reads as 15% Hispanic, 7% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 30% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Mallard Creek High School has 109 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. 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, Mallard Creek High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.3%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Mecklenburg County indicate 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. Mallard Creek High School is one of 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students).

Nearest neighbor: Corvian Community School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mallard Creek High School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 56.4%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Mallard Creek High School's enrollment has declined 21% since 2018, when it stood at 2,603 (now 2,068). The White share of enrollment fell from 14% to 7% over that span.

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