Public school / Primary
Smithfield Elementary
Charlotte, North Carolina
- NCES ID
- 370297000889
- District
- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Smithfield Elementary is a public primary school in Charlotte, North Carolina, run by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. It enrols 633 students — the 23923rd largest of 2,773 public schools in North Carolina.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
633
Teachers
36.0
Students per teacher
17.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
34.3%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Myers Park High School3,593 students
- 2Ardrey Kell High School3,529 students
- 3South Mecklenburg High School3,344 students
- 4William Amos Hough High2,518 students
- 5East Mecklenburg High School2,409 students
- 6Julius L. Chambers High School2,224 students
- 7North Mecklenburg High School2,186 students
- 8Mallard Creek High School2,185 students
- Enrollment+24.1%
- Teachers+5.9%
- Students per teacher+16.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−49.9%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory