Starmount Academy of Excellence

Starmount Academy of Excellence is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in Charlotte, North Carolina, run under Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, caters to 416 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, which oversees 186 schools and 145,014 students, Starmount Academy of Excellence is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Starmount Academy of Excellence lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 80%. Other groups include 17% Black, 2% White. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Starmount Academy of Excellence has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Mecklenburg County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Starmount Academy of Excellence is in the bottom 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.7%; Starmount Academy of Excellence posts 27.8%, -20.9 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Mecklenburg County shows median household income runs about $87,005, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Starmount Academy of Excellence is one of 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students).

Huntingtowne Farms Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Starmount Academy of Excellence comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.1%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Starmount Academy of Excellence has fell 7%, going from 445 students in 2018 to 416 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 65% to 80% across the same window.

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