Southwest Charlotte STEM Academy

Located at 5203 Shopton Rd, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Southwest Charlotte STEM Academy is an expansive elementary campus that enrolls 884 students (grades K through 8), operated by Southwest Charlotte STEM Academy. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 89% bigger than typical.

Southwest Charlotte STEM Academy is a school of Southwest Charlotte STEM Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, Southwest Charlotte STEM Academy lists that the largest single group is Black, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 20% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% White, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 30% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.0:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 98% of students at Southwest Charlotte STEM Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Mecklenburg County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Mecklenburg County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Southwest Charlotte STEM Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Berewick Elementary, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Southwest Charlotte STEM Academy operates from an outer-ring location. Southwest Charlotte STEM Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

On allk12, members of the Southwest Charlotte STEM Academy community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.