Movement School Northwest

Movement School Northwest, a cozy K-5 school in Charlotte, North Carolina, run under Movement School Northwest, caters to 208 students, covering grades K through 2. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Movement School Northwest sits 55% below that benchmark.

Movement School Northwest is a school of Movement School Northwest, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Movement School Northwest logs that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 99% of students at Movement School Northwest qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Mecklenburg County's rate of about 71%.

In the broader community, census data for Mecklenburg County shows the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Mecklenburg County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), of which Movement School Northwest is one.

Nearest neighbor: Mountain Island Lake Academy, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. Movement School Northwest is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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