Quail Hollow Middle

Set in Charlotte, North Carolina, Quail Hollow Middle is a sizable intermediate school, operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. It teaches 1,090 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 605 students each, so Quail Hollow Middle sits 80% larger than that benchmark.

Quail Hollow Middle is one of 186 schools operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, a district that educates 145,014 students overall.

Demographically, Quail Hollow Middle records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 27% Black, 16% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Mecklenburg County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Quail Hollow Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.6%, the actual is 41.4%, a residual of -7.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Mecklenburg County indicate median household income runs about $87,005, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Quail Hollow Middle is one of 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students).

Smithfield Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Quail Hollow Middle at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 51.7%.

Quail Hollow Middle operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Quail Hollow Middle has increased 13%, going from 961 students in 2018 to 1,090 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 36% to 53% across the same window.

On this page, members of the Quail Hollow Middle community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.