Pine Lake Preparatory, Inc.
Primary and Secondary EducationNorth Carolina, United States51-200 Employees
Pine Lake Preparatory is a public, tuition-free charter school serving kindergarten through 12th grade in Mooresville, North Carolina, about 30 minutes north of Charlotte. Founded in 2006, it enrolls more than 1,800 students from ten surrounding counties and positions itself as a regional academic leader among North Carolina charter schools. The school offers a rigorous college-preparatory curriculum with early instruction in the arts, Spanish, and STEM, and requires upper-grade students to complete 40 hours of community service per year, totaling 160 hours for graduation. Accredited by the North Carolina State Board of Education, Pine Lake Preparatory emphasizes critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication as core competencies that prepare graduates for college and beyond. Recent community engagement includes a January 2025 partnership with Bags of Hope to assemble more than 150 bags for local families, and graduates have gone on to attend universities such as MIT, University of Pennsylvania, Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, and others, reflecting the school's college-preparatory focus.