Smithfield Elementary

Smithfield Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school in Charlotte, North Carolina, part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. The school serves 672 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 44% larger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

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

Looking at the student body, Smithfield Elementary reports that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 29% Hispanic, 19% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Smithfield Elementary shows 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 48% of students at Smithfield Elementary qualify 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 somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Smithfield Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.3%, the actual is 63.1%, a residual of -1.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Mecklenburg County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Smithfield Elementary is one of 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students).

Nearest neighbor: Quail Hollow Middle, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Smithfield Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Smithfield Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 49.4%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Smithfield Elementary has expanded 4%, going from 646 students in 2018 to 672 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 24% to 19% across the same window.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.