Military and Global Leadership

Military and Global Leadership is an one-room-style four-year high school in Charlotte, North Carolina, part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. The school hosts 71 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 761 students each, so Military and Global Leadership sits 91% leaner than that benchmark.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools runs 186 schools in total, collectively educating 145,014 students. Military and Global Leadership is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Military and Global Leadership shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 38% Black, 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Military and Global Leadership reports 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. 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), Military and Global Leadership is in the bottom 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 49.6%; Military and Global Leadership posts 32.1%, -17.5 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Mecklenburg County put the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Mecklenburg County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), Military and Global Leadership is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hawthorne Academy of Health Sciences, around 0.0 miles off. 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), Military and Global Leadership ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 62.8%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 57%: 166 students in 2018 compared to 71 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 51% to 55% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 7.9:1 today.

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