Reid Park Academy

Reid Park Academy is one of the cozy elementary schools in Charlotte, North Carolina, part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, with 317 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Reid Park Academy sits 32% below that benchmark.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools comprises 186 schools with combined enrollment of 145,014 students; Reid Park Academy is among them.

On demographics, Reid Park Academy lists that Black students make up the majority at 57%. Other groups include 34% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% White. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 30% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Mecklenburg County (around 71%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Reid Park Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.6%, the actual is 31.9%, a residual of -16.7 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Mecklenburg County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Mecklenburg County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), of which Reid Park Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Niner University Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Reid Park Academy comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Reid Park Academy's enrollment has edged down 54% since 2018, when it stood at 693 (now 317). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 11% to 34%.

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