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What's one thing Reedy Creek Elementary gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
850
Elementary
DISTRICT 596 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG SCHOOLS·NCES 370297002170
Reedy Creek Elementary
10801 Plaza Rd Ext, Charlotte, NC 28215 · (980) 343-6480 · Mecklenburg County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL850 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% 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.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
15.4:1
55 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
847 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 | 51 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 121 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 132 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 133 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 152 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 114 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 147 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (121) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (147).
Student demographics
66%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
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
44.7%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
56.0%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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
52.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.4%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 Reedy Creek Elementary
Reedy Creek Elementary's state test result (52.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reedy Creek Elementary this school | 850 | 99.6% | 52.1% |
| Paw Creek Elementary Charlotte | 784 | 99.6% | 73.2% |
| Whitewater Academy Charlotte | 832 | 99.6% | 52.5% |
| Blythe Elementary Huntersville | 902 | 99.7% | 58.5% |
| University Meadows Elementary Charlotte | 737 | 99.6% | 42.0% |
| Berewick Elementary Charlotte | 717 | 99.6% | 51.1% |
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 Reedy Creek Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Mecklenburg County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.1% | #756 of 1,297 | #64 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #734 of 1,296 | #69 of 115 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.7% | #798 of 1,300 | #63 of 116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 850 | #54 of 1,485 | #13 of 136 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #871 of 1,377 | #58 of 133 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.6% | #443 of 1,379 | #33 of 133 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.6% | #15 of 1,414 | #4 of 130 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.0% | #189 of 369 | #21 of 41 |
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
850
-16 (-2%) vs 2020
+72% since 1990-91, when it was 494
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 16.6:1
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 | 850 | 55.2 | 15.4:1 | 100% (847) |
| 2023-24 | 881 | 53.2 | 16.6:1 | 100% (878) |
| 2022-23 | 1,007 | 53.8 | 18.7:1 | 54% (548) |
| 2020-21 | 866 | 52 | 16.6:1 | 47% (403) |
| 2017-18 | 773 | 47 | 16.5:1 | 100% (770) |
| 2015-16 | 778 | 45 | 17.3:1 | 72% (561) |
| 2010-11 | 804 | 45 | 17.9:1 | 63% (508) |
| 2000-01 | 781 | 31 | 25.2:1 | 21% (167) |
| 1990-91 | 494 | 25 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Reedy Creek Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (773 to 850); teachers up 18% (47 to 55.2).
About Reedy Creek Elementary
Reedy Creek Elementary is classified as an elementary school. It is located in Charlotte, North Carolina. Total enrollment is 850 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5. It has 82% more students than the average for elementary schools in North Carolina (about 467).
In Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, 186 schools enroll a combined 145,014 students.
The largest group at Reedy Creek Elementary is Black students, at 48%. After that, the student body is 32% Hispanic, 7% White, 7% multiracial, and 7% Asian. Census figures show Mecklenburg County is about 30% Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 66%.
There are about 15.4 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Reedy Creek Elementary, which has 55.2. The average ratio among elementary schools in North Carolina is similar, at 14.9:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Reedy Creek Elementary is about 100%. That is higher than the 71% average for public schools in Mecklenburg County.
On the allk12 Grade, Reedy Creek Elementary lands at B-, ahead of 45% of North Carolina public elementary schools.
A school with Reedy Creek Elementary's lunch-eligibility share in North Carolina is predicted to score 48.4%. Reedy Creek Elementary scores 52.1%, 3.6 points above that line.
American Community Survey estimates for Mecklenburg County show that the median household earns about $87,005 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 49%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Mecklenburg County has 226 public schools with about 170,407 students, including Reedy Creek Elementary.
American Leadership Academy Charlotte is about 1.9 miles from Reedy Creek Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, Reedy Creek Elementary ranks 2nd in a group of 7 nearby schools.
Reedy Creek Elementary falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (866) and 2024-25 (850). The school's ratio dropped from 16.6:1 to 15.4:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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
Other schools in Charlotte
- 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 Reedy Creek Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Reedy Creek Elementary. Reedy Creek Elementary is the largest of the 3.
- Reedy Creek ElementaryCary, NC · 605 students
- REEDY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLKISSIMMEE, FL · 431 students
Nearby schools
- American Leadership Academy Charlotte1.9 mi · 277
- Joseph W Grier Academy2.4 mi · 529
- Northridge Middle2.6 mi · 1,014
- Cato Middle College High School2.7 mi · 173
- Grove Park Elementary School2.7 mi · 740
- Hickory Grove Elementary3.0 mi · 643
Frequently asked questions
About Reedy Creek ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Reedy Creek Elementary?
Reedy Creek Elementary enrolls approximately 850 students in grades PK-05.
Is Reedy Creek Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Reedy Creek Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Reedy Creek Elementary?
Approximately 15.4:1 students per teacher at Reedy Creek Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Reedy Creek Elementary?
At Reedy Creek Elementary, the student body is approximately 7% White, 32% Hispanic, 48% Black, 7% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Reedy Creek Elementary in?
Reedy Creek Elementary is part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.
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