McClintock Middle

McClintock Middle is one of the sizable junior highs in Charlotte, North Carolina, overseen by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, with 1,056 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 605 students each, so McClintock Middle sits 75% bigger than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, McClintock Middle logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 33% Black, 12% White, 6% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Mecklenburg County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), McClintock Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 52.8%, a residual of +4.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Mecklenburg County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Mecklenburg County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), McClintock Middle is one campus in the mix.

East Mecklenburg High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), McClintock Middle ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 50.2%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at McClintock Middle has declined 4%, going from 1,101 students in 2018 to 1,056 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 48% to 33% over that span.

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