North Mecklenburg County residents gathered last week to discuss student assignment in the CMS system. The area’s school board representative, Rhonda Lennon, organized the meeting.
A little about Lennon’s District: It includes four high schools. Two are considered average by state grading standards. Those are Hopewell and North Meck. The others, Mallard Creek and Hough, are higher-performing schools.
Mallard Creek is two-thirds black, 16 percent white, and 9 percent Latino.
Hough is 76 percent white, 11 percent black, and 7 percent Latino. The school is located in Cornelius, where the student assignment meeting was held. A full house of parents and CMS Superintendent Ann Clark attended. So did WFAE’s Gwendolyn Glenn.