Tuckaseegee Elementary

As a mid-sized elementary-level community in Charlotte, North Carolina, Tuckaseegee Elementary works with 544 students from grades K through 5, operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Tuckaseegee Elementary reports that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 43% Black, 9% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter 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 number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Mecklenburg County's rate of about 71%.

With demographic context factored in, Tuckaseegee 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 59.7%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Mecklenburg County indicate median household earnings sit near $87,005, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Mecklenburg County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), of which Tuckaseegee Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Wilson STEM Academy, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tuckaseegee Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 38.4%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tuckaseegee Elementary has decreased 23%, going from 703 students in 2018 to 544 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 37% to 43% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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