NCES CCD 2024-25 15 schools NC

Best-Resourced Schools in Huntersville, NC

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15 public K-12 schools in Huntersville from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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15
Schools
13,861
Students
43.2/100
Avg Resource Index
19.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Huntersville has more public-school enrollment than 87% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Huntersville sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Huntersville's list includes 6 elementary, 2 middle, and 3 high-school campuses, plus 4 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Huntersville's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 61st percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 18th percentile. The 43-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 13%
School count
Top 23%
Resource Index average
61st percentile
Teacher staffing
18th percentile

Lake Norman Charter accounts for 16.0% of all Huntersville public-school enrollment

That concentration means Huntersville-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Huntersville school enrollment varies 13× across entities

Huntersville school enrollment ranges from 176 students (lowest) to 2,222 students (highest), a spread of 2,046 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Huntersville student-teacher ratio is 19.5:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

2 of Huntersville's 15 listed schools are charters

13% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

# School Score
1. North Academy of World Languages 62
2. Trillium Springs Montessori 59
3. Grand Oak Elementary 56
4. Torrence Creek Elementary 50
5. Long Creek Elementary 45
6. Merancas Middle College-Cpcc 45
7. Huntersville Elementary 44
8. Barnette Elementary 42
9. Lake Norman Charter 39
10. Bonnie Cone Classical Academy 39
11. North Mecklenburg High School 38
12. Francis Bradley Middle 36
13. Blythe Elementary 33
14. Hopewell High School 30
15. J. M. Alexander Middle 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Huntersville

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Trillium Springs Montessori 70.0/100
  2. 2 Merancas Middle College-Cpcc 69.8/100
  3. 3 Francis Bradley Middle 69.6/100
  4. 4 North Academy of World Languages 69.6/100
  5. 5 Hopewell High School 67.1/100

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Which Huntersville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

North Academy of World Languages has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Huntersville schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Huntersville, NC? ▼

Huntersville has 15 public schools with a total enrollment of 13,861 students. 2 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 19.5:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.