United Community School

United Community School operates as a small elementary school in Charlotte, North Carolina. It educates 250 students in kindergarten through 8. The typical figure for elementary schools in North Carolina is about 467 students.

The school serves as its own district in federal records.

United Community School's enrollment is 54% Black. Next come 28% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 6% White. That compares with about 30% Black among all Mecklenburg County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at United Community School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 62%.

The count of teachers at United Community School is 19.2 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 13.0:1. Among elementary schools in North Carolina, the typical ratio is 14.9:1.

County data help place the school in context: in Mecklenburg County, median household income is about $87,005, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 49%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. United Community School is among the 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County.

Vaughan Academy of Technology is the public school closest to United Community School, about 1.0 miles away. United Community School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. The school is classified as a charter school in federal data.

United Community School had 252 students in 2020-21 and 250 in 2024-25, nearly the same. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 13.0:1, from 15.8:1.

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