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Enrollment
610
Elementary
DISTRICT 596 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG SCHOOLS·NCES 370297001246
Nations Ford Elementary
7050 Nations Ford Rd, Charlotte, NC 28217 · (980) 343-5838 · Mecklenburg County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL610 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 1% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
607 students
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 29 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 96 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 122 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 91 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (89) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (91).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
18.7%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
33.2%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NC schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
25.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-22.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 48% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Nations Ford Elementary
Nations Ford Elementary's state test result (25.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nations Ford Elementary this school | 610 | 99.5% | 25.6% |
| Devonshire Elementary Charlotte | 550 | 99.5% | 31.6% |
| Siler City Elementary Siler City | 591 | 99.5% | 46.3% |
| Merry Oaks International Academy Charlotte | 601 | 99.5% | 32.3% |
| Montclaire Elementary Charlotte | 512 | 99.4% | 43.0% |
| Sterling Elementary Pineville | 786 | 99.6% | 33.6% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Nations Ford Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Mecklenburg County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.6% | #1,277 of 1,297 | #114 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.2% | #1,225 of 1,296 | #110 of 115 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.7% | #1,289 of 1,300 | #113 of 116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 610 | #335 of 1,485 | #60 of 136 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.5:1 | #1,129 of 1,377 | #90 of 133 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.0% | #1,209 of 1,379 | #127 of 133 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.5% | #137 of 1,414 | #29 of 130 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.1% | #207 of 937 | #25 of 72 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
610
-275 (-31%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 565
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
was 14.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 610 | 36.9 | 16.5:1 | 100% (607) |
| 2023-24 | 608 | 39.9 | 15.2:1 | 100% (605) |
| 2022-23 | 624 | 39.5 | 15.8:1 | 98% (612) |
| 2020-21 | 885 | 60 | 14.8:1 | 100% (882) |
| 2017-18 | 793 | 51.2 | 15.5:1 | 99% (789) |
| 2015-16 | 751 | 46 | 16.3:1 | 100% (748) |
| 2010-11 | 573 | 37 | 15.5:1 | 91% (522) |
| 2000-01 | 386 | 37 | 10.4:1 | 67% (260) |
| 1990-91 | 565 | 30 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Nations Ford Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (793 to 610); teachers down 28% (51.2 to 36.9).
About Nations Ford Elementary
Nations Ford Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Its 610 students are spread across pre-K through 5. The school's enrollment is 31% bigger than the 467 average for elementary schools in North Carolina.
Nations Ford Elementary is a school in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. The district has 186 schools and 145,014 students.
A majority of students at Nations Ford Elementary, 77%, are Hispanic. The remaining shares are 17% Black and 3% White. Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. The chance that two students picked at random at Nations Ford Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 37%.
Teachers at the school number 36.9 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 16.5:1. The 14.9:1 average for elementary schools in North Carolina is lower than this school's figure. Roughly 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Mecklenburg County is 71%.
allk12 grades Nations Ford Elementary an F. The grade compares the school only with North Carolina public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Nations Ford Elementary posts 25.6% against a 48.5% prediction, a bottom-10% result in North Carolina.
Census estimates describe Mecklenburg County this way: median household income is about $87,005, about 49% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County, with a combined enrollment of about 170,407.
The school nearest to Nations Ford Elementary is Elbert Edwin Waddell High School, at a distance of about 0.3 miles. Within five miles of Nations Ford Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Nations Ford Elementary ranks 4th of 4 on average proficiency.
Federal data place Nations Ford Elementary in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 31%, from 885 to 610. The school's ratio rose from 14.8:1 to 16.5:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Mecklenburg County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,154,681
Census ACS
Median income
$87,005
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
226
170,407 students
Quick facts
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Other schools in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
- Myers Park High SchoolHigh · 3,225 students
- Ardrey Kell High SchoolHigh · 3,036 students
- South Mecklenburg High SchoolHigh · 2,534 students
- William Amos Hough HighHigh · 2,518 students
- East Mecklenburg High SchoolHigh · 2,422 students
- Palisades High SchoolHigh · 2,332 students
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- Myers Park High SchoolHigh · 3,225 students
- Ardrey Kell High SchoolHigh · 3,036 students
- South Mecklenburg High SchoolHigh · 2,534 students
- East Mecklenburg High SchoolHigh · 2,422 students
- Palisades High SchoolHigh · 2,332 students
- Julius L. Chambers High SchoolHigh · 2,225 students
Nearby schools
- Elbert Edwin Waddell High School0.3 mi · 123
- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Virtual School0.3 mi · 619
- Movement School Southwest0.7 mi · 284
- South Academy of International Languages1.3 mi · 1,259
- Steele Creek Preparatory Academy1.3 mi · 335
- Metrolina Reg Scholars Academy1.4 mi · 396
Frequently asked questions
About Nations Ford ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Nations Ford Elementary?
Nations Ford Elementary enrolls approximately 610 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Nations Ford Elementary serve?
Nations Ford Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Nations Ford Elementary?
Approximately 16.5:1 students per teacher at Nations Ford Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Nations Ford Elementary?
At Nations Ford Elementary, the student body is approximately 3% White, 77% Hispanic, 17% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Nations Ford Elementary public or private?
Nations Ford Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.
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