Wolf Meadow Elementary

Wolf Meadow Elementary is a mid-sized elementary campus in Concord, North Carolina, operated by Cabarrus County Schools. The school serves 655 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 40% larger than the state mean of about 467.

Across the 44 schools in Cabarrus County Schools (35,568 students total), Wolf Meadow Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Wolf Meadow Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 37%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 29% Black, 23% White, 8% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cabarrus County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Wolf Meadow 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 31.8%, a residual of -16.6 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Cabarrus County put the typical household earns roughly $89,005 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Wolf Meadow Elementary is one of 56 public schools in Cabarrus County (combined enrollment of about 43,278 students).

The closest other public school is Harold E. Winkler Middle, roughly 1.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wolf Meadow Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 51.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 10%: 597 students in 2018 compared to 655 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 30% to 23% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.