Summary:
Zip code 28207 in Charlotte, NC is home to two exceptional elementary schools — Myers Park Traditional Elementary and Eastover Elementary — both part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and serving grades K-5 with a combined enrollment of about 1,063 students.
Both schools are elite by statewide standards, ranking in the 92nd percentile or higher in 2025–26. Myers Park currently leads, ranking 87th in North Carolina with a 94th-percentile placement, while Eastover ranks 113th at the 92nd percentile. Myers Park is the larger school with 678 students and a student-teacher ratio of 16.0, while Eastover offers a smaller environment with 385 students and a slightly better ratio at 14.7. They have similar free/reduced-price lunch rates (31.4% vs. 32.2%), but Myers Park reports far lower chronic absenteeism at just 5.5% compared to Eastover's 14.1% — still well below the CMS district rate of 26.8%.
Academic performance is strong at both schools. Myers Park posts higher average scores in Math (86.2% vs. 84.7%) and Reading (79.9% vs. 74.3%), while Eastover excels in 5th grade Science with a stellar 94.8% proficiency rate — the highest single score in the dataset. Both schools show a consistent pattern: Math outpaces Reading, especially at Eastover where the gap exceeds 10 points. Rankings have shifted recently too: in 2023–24 Eastover ranked 169th, ahead of Myers Park's 249th, but the next year Myers Park surged to 83rd and has stayed ahead. Eastover spends more per student ($10,309 vs. $9,271) but does not outperform Myers Park overall, reminding families that test scores and school fit matter more than spending alone. Families in this zip code have two top-tier choices that far exceed district and state averages.
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