McKee Road Elementary

Located at 4101 McKee Rd, in Charlotte, North Carolina, McKee Road Elementary is a mid-sized K-5 school that educates 534 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

McKee Road Elementary is one of 186 schools operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, a district that teaches 145,014 students overall.

On demographics, McKee Road Elementary shows that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 25% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 10% Black, 5% multiracial. Compared to Mecklenburg County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, McKee Road Elementary reports 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting McKee Road Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 27% of students at McKee Road Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Mecklenburg County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, McKee Road Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.5%, the actual is 86.1%, a residual of +15.6 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Mecklenburg County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 McKee Road Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Telra Institute, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), McKee Road Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 88.9%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 7%: 500 students in 2018 compared to 534 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 61% to 49% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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