Oakdale Elementary

Oakdale Elementary, a medium-sized primary school in Charlotte, North Carolina, overseen by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, enrolls 497 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

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

On the student-mix side, Oakdale Elementary records that the most-represented group is Black (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 30% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial, 4% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Oakdale Elementary has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at Oakdale Elementary 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%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Oakdale Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.7%, the actual is 40.8%, a residual of -7.9 points.

Around the school, census data for Mecklenburg County shows median household income runs about $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), Oakdale Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mountain Island Lake Academy, around 1.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oakdale Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 53.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 14%: 579 students in 2018 compared to 497 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 20% to 30%. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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