Mint Hill Middle

Mint Hill Middle, a reasonably sized junior high in Matthews, North Carolina, overseen by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, instructs 878 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 45% larger than the state mean of about 605.

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

Looking at the student body, Mint Hill Middle shows that 31% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 28% Hispanic, 27% Black, 8% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 45% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Mint Hill Middle has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Mint Hill Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Mecklenburg County's rate of about 71%.

After controlling for student poverty, Mint Hill Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.6%, the actual is 62.7%, a residual of -0.9 points.

In the area at large, Mecklenburg County reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Mecklenburg County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), Mint Hill Middle is one campus in the mix.

Mint Hill Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mint Hill Middle. On composite proficiency, Mint Hill Middle comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 52.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mint Hill Middle has contracted 27%, going from 1,195 students in 2018 to 878 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 41% to 31% across the same window.

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