Olde Providence Elementary

Olde Providence Elementary operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in Charlotte, North Carolina, operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Current enrollment sits at 687 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Olde Providence Elementary sits 47% larger than that benchmark.

Within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, which oversees 186 schools and 145,014 students, Olde Providence Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Olde Providence Elementary records that 75% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 9% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 45% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Around 19% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Mecklenburg County's rate of about 71%.

With demographic context factored in, Olde Providence Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.0%; this one delivers 83.3%.

Zooming out to the county, Mecklenburg County reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Mecklenburg County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), of which Olde Providence Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Carmel Middle, roughly 1.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Olde Providence Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Olde Providence Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 73.4%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Olde Providence Elementary has contracted 4%, going from 714 students in 2018 to 687 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 5% to 9% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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