Statesville Road Elementary

Statesville Road Elementary operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the schools within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Current enrollment sits at 482 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, which oversees 186 schools and 145,014 students, Statesville Road Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Statesville Road Elementary lists that the largest single group is Black, at 60% of enrollment. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% White. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 30% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Statesville Road Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Mecklenburg County's rate of about 71%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Statesville Road Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 48.2%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Mecklenburg County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Mecklenburg County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), Statesville Road Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Academy, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Statesville Road Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 50.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Statesville Road Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 570 (now 482). Black enrollment moved from 74% to 60% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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