Sugar Creek Charter

In Charlotte, North Carolina, part of Mecklenburg County, Sugar Creek Charter is a school serving multiple grade levels. Students in kindergarten through 12 make up the school's enrollment of 1,591 students. Combined schools in North Carolina have about 731 students on average; enrollment here is 118% higher.

Sugar Creek Charter is its own local education agency in federal data.

Black students are 70% of those enrolled at Sugar Creek Charter. The remaining shares are 27% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Mecklenburg County's population at about 30%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 44, compared with 70 nationally.

A staff of 68 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 23.4:1. Across combined schools in North Carolina, the average ratio is 16.1:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 97%. The average for public schools in Mecklenburg County is 71%.

In the surrounding county, Mecklenburg County, the median household earns about $87,005 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 49%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Mecklenburg County has 226 public schools with about 170,407 students, including Sugar Creek Charter.

Highland Renaissance Academy is the nearest public school to Sugar Creek Charter, about 0.4 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. This is a charter school, which is a tuition-free public school operating under a charter.

The school shrank from 1,690 students in 2020-21 to 1,591 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 19.2:1 to 23.4:1.

On allk12, people connected to Sugar Creek Charter can post about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.