Selwyn Elementary

Set in Charlotte, North Carolina, Selwyn Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school, operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. It instructs 669 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so Selwyn Elementary sits 43% bigger than that benchmark.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools runs 186 schools in total, collectively educating 145,014 students. Selwyn Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Selwyn Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment; the rest consists of 9% Black, 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 45% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Selwyn Elementary has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Mecklenburg County (around 71%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Selwyn Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.3%, the actual is 88.5%, a residual of +14.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Mecklenburg County shows the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Mecklenburg County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), of which Selwyn Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Alexander Graham Middle, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Selwyn Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 63.1%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Selwyn Elementary's enrollment has decreased 18% since 2018, when it stood at 817 (now 669). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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