Piedmont Middle School

Piedmont Middle School, an expansive intermediate school in Charlotte, North Carolina, operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, serves 1,108 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 83% above the state mean of about 605.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools runs 186 schools in total, collectively educating 145,014 students. Piedmont Middle School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Piedmont Middle School lists that Black students make up the majority at 57%. Other groups include 18% White, 14% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 30% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 46% 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 meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Piedmont Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.7%, the actual is 75.3%, a residual of +10.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Mecklenburg County shows the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Mecklenburg County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), of which Piedmont Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Elizabeth Traditional Elem, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Piedmont Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Piedmont Middle School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 55.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Piedmont Middle School has rose 4%, going from 1,062 students in 2018 to 1,108 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 in 2025.

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