Steele Creek Elementary

Located at 4100 Gallant Ln, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Steele Creek Elementary is a mid-tier primary school that works with 525 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools comprises 186 schools with combined enrollment of 145,014 students; Steele Creek Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Steele Creek Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 34% Black, 6% White, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Steele Creek Elementary records 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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.

After controlling for student poverty, Steele Creek 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 54.6%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Mecklenburg County indicate median household earnings sit near $87,005, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Mecklenburg County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), Steele Creek Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Olympic High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Steele Creek Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Steele Creek Elementary at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 40.8%.

Steele Creek Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Steele Creek Elementary's enrollment has edged down 29% since 2018, when it stood at 741 (now 525). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 45% to 52% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Steele Creek Elementary typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.