Thomasboro Academy

Located at 538 Bradford Dr, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Thomasboro Academy is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that educates 569 students (grades K through 8), overseen by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. That puts it 22% bigger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

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

On the student-mix side, Thomasboro Academy shows that 49% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 37% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 30% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Thomasboro Academy shows 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Thomasboro Academy sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.5%; actual is 30.4%, a gap of -18.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Mecklenburg County) records that median household earnings sit near $87,005, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Thomasboro Academy is one of 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students).

The closest other public school is Allenbrook Elementary, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Thomasboro Academy. On composite proficiency, Thomasboro Academy comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.8%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 10%: 633 students in 2018 compared to 569 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 15% to 37% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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