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Enrollment
441
Elementary
DISTRICT 596 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG SCHOOLS·NCES 370297001262
Piney Grove Elementary
8801 Eaglewind Dr, Charlotte, NC 28212 · (980) 343-6470 · Mecklenburg County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL441 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 44% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
438 students
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 29 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 47 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 86 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 37% smaller than its 5th grade class (75).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Piney Grove Elementary→Albemarle Road Middle
Based on published attendance-zone data from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
46.3%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
58.8%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
51.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Piney Grove Elementary
Piney Grove Elementary's state test result (51.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piney Grove Elementary this school | 441 | 99.3% | 51.8% |
| Lebanon Road Elementary Charlotte | 488 | 99.4% | 49.1% |
| Oak Hill Elementary High Point | 411 | 99.3% | 34.1% |
| Sedgefield Elementary Greensboro | 489 | 99.4% | 41.6% |
| Holt Elementary Durham | 587 | 99.5% | 42.0% |
| Idlewild Elementary Charlotte | 850 | 99.6% | 57.2% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Piney Grove Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Mecklenburg County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.8% | #761 of 1,297 | #66 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.8% | #644 of 1,296 | #63 of 115 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.3% | #747 of 1,300 | #59 of 116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 441 | #780 of 1,485 | #102 of 136 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #227 of 1,377 | #14 of 133 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.5% | #448 of 1,379 | #34 of 133 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.3% | #376 of 1,414 | #56 of 130 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -44.2% | #14 of 937 | #6 of 72 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
441
-287 (-39%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 604
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 14.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 441 | 33.9 | 13.0:1 | 99% (438) |
| 2023-24 | 474 | 38.6 | 12.3:1 | 99% (471) |
| 2022-23 | 555 | 38 | 14.6:1 | 99% (552) |
| 2020-21 | 728 | 49 | 14.9:1 | 100% (725) |
| 2017-18 | 790 | 52.8 | 15.0:1 | 100% (787) |
| 2015-16 | 852 | 55 | 15.5:1 | 100% (849) |
| 2010-11 | 762 | 48 | 15.9:1 | 78% (597) |
| 2000-01 | 627 | 41 | 15.3:1 | 42% (264) |
| 1990-91 | 604 | 27 | 22.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Piney Grove Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 44% (790 to 441); teachers down 36% (52.8 to 33.9).
About Piney Grove Elementary
This page covers Piney Grove Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school in Charlotte, North Carolina. The school enrolls 441 students in pre-K through 5.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is responsible for 186 schools, Piney Grove Elementary included, with 145,014 students in all.
More than half of enrollment at Piney Grove Elementary is Hispanic: 51%. Other groups make up 23% Black, 17% Asian, 6% White, and 3% multiracial. Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Piney Grove Elementary scores 65%.
Staffing at Piney Grove Elementary comes to 33.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.0:1. Elementary schools in North Carolina average 14.9:1, 1.9 more students per teacher than here. Piney Grove Elementary counts 99% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Mecklenburg County average 71%.
Piney Grove Elementary earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 44% of North Carolina public elementary schools.
Piney Grove Elementary's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 51.8% is 3.3 points above the 48.5% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Looking at the county, Mecklenburg County, median household income comes to about $87,005, about 49% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The county's public schools total 226, with about 170,407 students.
Idlewild Elementary is about 1.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Piney Grove Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Piney Grove Elementary ranks 3rd of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 51.8% against a local average of 44.0%.
Under the NCES locale system, Piney Grove Elementary is City: Large.
The school shrank from 728 students in 2020-21 to 441 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 14.9:1; by 2024-25 it was 13.0:1.
The allk12 page for Piney Grove Elementary lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Mecklenburg County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,154,681
Census ACS
Median income
$87,005
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
226
170,407 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
- Myers Park High SchoolHigh · 3,225 students
- Ardrey Kell High SchoolHigh · 3,036 students
- South Mecklenburg High SchoolHigh · 2,534 students
- William Amos Hough HighHigh · 2,518 students
- East Mecklenburg High SchoolHigh · 2,422 students
- Palisades High SchoolHigh · 2,332 students
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- Myers Park High SchoolHigh · 3,225 students
- Ardrey Kell High SchoolHigh · 3,036 students
- South Mecklenburg High SchoolHigh · 2,534 students
- East Mecklenburg High SchoolHigh · 2,422 students
- Palisades High SchoolHigh · 2,332 students
- Julius L. Chambers High SchoolHigh · 2,225 students
Other Piney Grove Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 1 state are named Piney Grove Elementary. Piney Grove Elementary is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- Piney Grove ElementaryKernersville, NC · 635 students
- Piney Grove ElementaryLumberton, NC · 452 students
Nearby schools
- Idlewild Elementary1.2 mi · 850
- Crown Point Elementary1.3 mi · 657
- Greenway Park Elementary1.4 mi · 511
- East Mecklenburg High School1.5 mi · 2,422
- Albemarle Road Elementary1.7 mi · 711
- Esperanza Global Academy1.8 mi · 538
Frequently asked questions
About Piney Grove ElementaryHow many students attend Piney Grove Elementary?
Piney Grove Elementary enrolls approximately 441 students in grades PK-05.
Is Piney Grove Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Piney Grove Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Piney Grove Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Piney Grove Elementary is approximately 13.0:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Piney Grove Elementary?
At Piney Grove Elementary, the student body is approximately 6% White, 51% Hispanic, 23% Black, 17% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Piney Grove Elementary in?
Piney Grove Elementary is part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.