Pine Lake Preparatory

Pine Lake Preparatory runs as a large combined-grade school in Mooresville, North Carolina. The school had 1,888 students in kindergarten through 12 in 2024-25. Average enrollment for combined schools in North Carolina is about 731, so this school runs 158% above that.

The school serves as its own district in federal records.

White students make up 81% of enrollment at Pine Lake Preparatory. The next largest groups are 7% Hispanic, 6% Asian, and 5% multiracial. The school's diversity index is 34%, meaning two students picked at random have a 34% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

The school has about 15.9 students per teacher and 119.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is close to the 16.1:1 average for combined schools in North Carolina.

In Iredell County (population about 196,544), the median household income is $81,419, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Pine Lake Preparatory is one of 52 public schools in the county.

Langtree Charter Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles away. The five-mile area around Pine Lake Preparatory holds at least 8 other public schools.

Locale: City: Small. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000. The school is classified as a charter school in federal data.

Enrollment has been fairly stable: 1,877 in 2020-21 and 1,888 in 2024-25.

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