Newell Elementary

Located at 325 Rocky River Road West, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Newell Elementary is a reasonably sized primary school that enrolls 554 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

Across the 186 schools in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (145,014 students total), Newell Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Newell Elementary records that 65% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 29% Black, 3% Asian, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Mecklenburg County's rate of about 71%.

With demographic context factored in, Newell Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 32.9%, a residual of -15.6 points.

Around the school, Mecklenburg County reports that median household earnings sit near $87,005, 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), Newell Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is James Martin Middle, roughly 1.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Newell Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.9%.

Newell Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 30%: 790 students in 2018 compared to 554 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 52% to 65% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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