Windsor Park Elementary

Located at 3910 Sudbury Rd, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Windsor Park Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that serves 470 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools comprises 186 schools with combined enrollment of 145,014 students; Windsor Park Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Windsor Park Elementary records that 73% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 13% Black, 6% Asian, 4% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Windsor Park Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 99% 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 above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Windsor Park Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 51.9%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Mecklenburg County indicate median household income runs about $87,005, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Windsor Park Elementary is one of 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lawrence Orr Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Windsor Park Elementary at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 37.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Windsor Park Elementary's enrollment has fell 33% since 2018, when it stood at 703 (now 470). Hispanic enrollment moved from 57% to 73% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

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