Turning Point Middle

Set in Charlotte, North Carolina, Turning Point Middle is a tiny middle school, part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. It educates 62 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 90% below the state mean of about 605.

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

On demographics, Turning Point Middle logs that Black students make up the majority at 79%. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 30% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 4.1:1. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 95% 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%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Mecklenburg County put 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%. In all, Mecklenburg County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), of which Turning Point Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Gov's Village STEM (Upper), around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.