Vaughan Academy of Technology

Located at 8601 Old Concord Rd, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Vaughan Academy of Technology is a modestly sized primary school that caters to 309 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. That puts it 34% below 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; Vaughan Academy of Technology is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Vaughan Academy of Technology lists that Black students make up the majority at 63%. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 6% White, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 30% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Mecklenburg County (around 71%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Vaughan Academy of Technology sits in the top 10% of North Carolina schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 48.6%; actual is 67.4%, +18.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Mecklenburg County put median household income runs about $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 Vaughan Academy of Technology is one.

Nearest neighbor: United Community School, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Vaughan Academy of Technology comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.1%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Vaughan Academy of Technology has ticked down 21%, going from 392 students in 2018 to 309 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 73% to 63%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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