Paw Creek Elementary

Paw Creek Elementary operates as a sprawling elementary school in Charlotte, North Carolina, operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Current enrollment sits at 784 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Paw Creek Elementary sits 68% larger than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, Paw Creek Elementary records that the most-represented group is Black (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 34% Hispanic, 7% White, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 30% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Paw Creek Elementary has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Mecklenburg County (around 71%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Paw Creek Elementary ranks in the top 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 48.4%; Paw Creek Elementary posts 73.2%, +24.8 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Mecklenburg County shows 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 Paw Creek Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Coulwood STEM Academy, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Paw Creek Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Paw Creek Elementary's enrollment has grew 16% since 2018, when it stood at 676 (now 784). Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 56% to 51%. Class-load math has rose: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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