South Pine Academy

As a high-enrollment K-5 school in Charlotte, North Carolina, South Pine Academy caters to 765 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so South Pine Academy sits 64% above that benchmark.

South Pine Academy is one of 186 schools operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, a district that serves 145,014 students overall.

On the student-mix side, South Pine Academy records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 57%. Beyond that, the school records 35% Black, 4% White, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, South Pine Academy has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.9:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at South Pine Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Mecklenburg County's rate of about 71%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), South Pine Academy falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.4%; this one comes in at 26.5%, -21.9 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, census data for Mecklenburg County shows median household income runs about $87,005, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Mecklenburg County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), South Pine Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Kennedy Middle, around 1.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, South Pine Academy comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

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