Villa Heights Elementary

As a very small K-5 school in Charlotte, North Carolina, Villa Heights Elementary works with 153 students from grades K through 5, operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. That puts it 67% below the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Villa Heights Elementary is one of 186 schools operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, a district that teaches 145,014 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Villa Heights Elementary reports that 53% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 21% White, 19% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 30% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Villa Heights Elementary reports 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.3:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Mecklenburg County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Villa Heights Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.7%.

In the surrounding community, 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 roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Mecklenburg County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), Villa Heights Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hawthorne Academy of Health Sciences, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Villa Heights Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.1%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

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