The top reported proficiency rate is 89% in Math. The lowest is 81% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Community House Middle
Community House Middle is a regular public middle school serving grades six through eight in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. It sits in a mid-sized enrollment band for its grade range, with the sixth and seventh grades roughly balanced and the eighth grade notably larger. The school's address on Community House Road places it in a southern area of Charlotte, within a zip code where housing values lean above state benchmarks and rents have declined modestly over the past year.
The student body at Community House Middle is racially and ethnically mixed. Asian students represent the largest share, followed closely by white students; Black and Hispanic students each make up a smaller portion. About one in five students qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. Data on special populations such as students with IEPs or English learners was not available.
Academic performance is solid across tested areas. In mathematics, the school's proficiency rate sits in the upper range. English language arts proficiency is lower than math but still reflects that roughly four in five students met proficiency standards. In science, which saw both an assessment name change and a cut-score adjustment from the state in the most recent year, proficiency is high. The science proficiency data may not be directly comparable to prior years due to that assessment change. Trend data across multiple years was unavailable, so it is not possible to describe whether performance is rising, falling, or stable. These results represent the 2024-2025 school year; the state assessments in North Carolina test grades three through eight, so all three core subjects are measured at this school.
The school serves no high school grades, so it has no graduation rate. It is a neighborhood school, not a magnet or charter school, and does not carry a Title I designation. The school is part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, a large urban district undergoing significant change. The district approved a major construction bond in 2023 that will build three new middle schools and fund renovation projects district-wide; Community House Middle's own facility status or timeline was not specified in available sources. Beginning in 2027-2028, CMS will shift from a "School Choice" enrollment model based on selecting specific magnet schools to a "Program Choice" model organized around six K-12 academic pathways. How Community House Middle will fit into that new structure remains unclear from available data. The district has also adopted a standardized elementary language arts curriculum (EL Education's framework) in elementary grades, but the application to middle school instruction was not detailed.
Community House Middle's academic results place it as a performer at the state standard for grades six through eight. The school's context—a mid-sized middle school in the southern end of Charlotte's footprint, serving a diverse student body in a neighborhood with moderate lunch-assistance need—fits families looking for a traditional neighborhood middle school in that area. A parent considering this school may want to inquire directly with the school about any planned renovations or facility improvements tied to the district's recent bond, the implementation of the Program Choice model in 2027-2028 and how it affects enrollment and offerings, and current course or intervention supports in language arts and other subjects.
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