University Meadows Elementary

Set in Charlotte, North Carolina, University Meadows Elementary is a large elementary school, overseen by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. It instructs 737 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 467 students each, so University Meadows Elementary sits 58% above that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, University Meadows Elementary records that Black students make up the majority at 57%. Beyond that, the school logs 29% Hispanic, 6% White, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Mecklenburg County's rate of about 71%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, University Meadows Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 42.0%, a residual of -6.4 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Mecklenburg County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, 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 University Meadows Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: United Community School, around 1.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, University Meadows Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at University Meadows Elementary has grew 16%, going from 636 students in 2018 to 737 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 in 2025.

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