Movement School Eastland

Movement School Eastland is an elementary school of medium-sized scale in Charlotte, North Carolina, operated by Movement School Eastland, hosting 523 students in grades K through 5.

Operationally, Movement School Eastland answers to Movement School Eastland, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, Movement School Eastland lists that the largest single group is Black, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 13% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Movement School Eastland higher than the state norm the norm. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Mecklenburg County's rate of about 71%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Mecklenburg County) shows that median household income runs about $87,005, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Mecklenburg County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), Movement School Eastland is one campus in the mix.

Commonwealth High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Movement School Eastland.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. Movement School Eastland operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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