Olympic High School

Olympic High School operates as a roomy 9-12 campus in Charlotte, North Carolina, operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Current enrollment sits at 1,483 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 95% bigger than the state mean of about 761.

Within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, which oversees 186 schools and 145,014 students, Olympic High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Olympic High School records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 38% Black, 6% White, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the resource side, Olympic High School reports 89 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting Olympic High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Mecklenburg County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Olympic High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.2%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Mecklenburg County) records that 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. Olympic High School is one of 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students).

Nearest neighbor: Steele Creek Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Olympic High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.7%.

Olympic High School operates from an inner-city location.

Inside the community feed, members of the Olympic High School community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.