Winterfield Elementary

Set in Charlotte, North Carolina, Winterfield Elementary is a reasonably sized primary school, operated by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. It hosts 461 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 186 schools in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (145,014 students total), Winterfield Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Winterfield Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 15% Black, 6% White, 5% Asian. By comparison, Mecklenburg County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Winterfield Elementary has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 99% of students at Winterfield Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Mecklenburg County's rate of about 71%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Winterfield Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.5%; actual is 29.6%, a gap of -18.9 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Mecklenburg County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Winterfield Elementary is one of 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students).

The closest other public school is Commonwealth High, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Winterfield Elementary. On composite proficiency, Winterfield Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 43.2%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Winterfield Elementary's enrollment has decreased 28% since 2018, when it stood at 638 (now 461). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 52% to 73%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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