Providence Spring Elementary

As a mid-tier elementary-level community in Charlotte, North Carolina, Providence Spring Elementary enrolls 586 students from grades K through 5, part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Providence Spring Elementary sits 25% above that benchmark.

Within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, which oversees 186 schools and 145,014 students, Providence Spring Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Providence Spring Elementary reports that White students make up the majority at 76%; the rest breaks down as 7% multiracial, 6% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 5% Black. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 45%.

In terms of school funding signals, Providence Spring Elementary shows 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 5% of students at Providence Spring Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Mecklenburg County's rate of about 71%.

With demographic context factored in, Providence Spring Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.2%, the actual is 90.6%, a residual of +13.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Mecklenburg County) logs that median household earnings sit near $87,005, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Mecklenburg County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), Providence Spring Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Telra Institute, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Providence Spring Elementary. On composite proficiency, Providence Spring Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 85.5%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Providence Spring Elementary's enrollment has shrank 38% since 2018, when it stood at 947 (now 586). Over the same period, the Asian share declined from 20% to 6%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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