Charter agency · Mecklenburg County
Southwest Charlotte STEM Academy, NC: schools, enrollment and spending
Southwest Charlotte STEM Academy runs 1 public school with 884 students in grades K to 8. Its ratio of 16.1 students per teacher is about the same as the North Carolina figure of 16.3.
At a glance
- Schools
- 1
- Students
- 884
- Teachers (FTE)
- 55
- Students per teacher
- 16.1
- NC: 16.3 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 5203 Shopton Rd, Charlotte, NC 28278
- Phone
- (980)505-8344
- County
- Mecklenburg County
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- Grades offered
- K to 8
- Agency type
- Charter agency
- NCES district ID
- 3700446
- State district ID
- NC-62J
- School counselors (FTE)
- 1.0About 884 students per counselor.
- Charter schools
- 1
Students per teacher compared
This district16.1
North Carolina16.3
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (653), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $5.8 million
- Federal revenue
- $281,000
- State revenue
- $4.0 million
- Local revenue
- $1.6 million
- Total spending
- $5.2 million
- Spending per pupil
- $7,887
- Salaries
- $2.1 million39.9% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $0
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 4.8%
- State: 67.8%
- Local: 27.4%
North Carolina overall
- Federal: 12.1%
- State: 61.7%
- Local: 26.2%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$7,887
North Carolina$11,869
United States$16,826
Schools in Southwest Charlotte STEM Academy
By level: 1 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Southwest Charlotte STEM AcademyCharter | Elementary | K to 8 | 884 | 16.1 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Mecklenburg County
- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools 147,299 students
- Lake Norman Charter 2,222 students
- Community School of Davidson 1,631 students
- Sugar Creek Charter 1,591 students
- Bradford Preparatory School 1,566 students
- Corvian Community School 1,376 students
- Queen's Grant Community School 1,335 students
- Bonnie Cone Leadership Academy 1,269 students
- Socrates Academy 1,039 students
- Mallard Creek STEM Academy 961 students
- Unity Classical Charter School 928 students
- Jackson Day School 882 students
- KIPP: Charlotte 813 students
- Charlotte Lab School 807 students
- Matthews Charter Academy 771 students
More in North Carolina
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.