NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools SC

Best-Resourced Schools in Clover, SC

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10 public K-12 schools in Clover from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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10
Schools
9,038
Students
49.1/100
Avg Resource Index
13.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Clover has more public-school enrollment than 77% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Clover lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

7 of Clover's 10 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Clover's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 84th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 21-point gap between Bethel Elementary and Clover High measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 23%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
84th percentile
Teacher staffing
74th percentile

Clover High accounts for 30.0% of all Clover public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Clover-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Clover school enrollment varies 7.7× across entities

Clover school enrollment ranges from 353 students (lowest) to 2,713 students (highest), a spread of 2,360 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Clover operates one school district — a single-district system

Clover's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Clover student-teacher ratio is 13.4:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Bethel Elementary 57
2. Oakridge Elementary 54
3. Oakridge Middle 53
4. Crowders Creek Elementary 50
5. Griggs Road Elementary 50
6. Bethany Elementary 50
7. Clover Middle 49
8. Larne Elementary 47
9. Kinard Elementary 45
10. Clover High 36

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Clover

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Kinard Elementary 60.5/100
  2. 2 Crowders Creek Elementary 56.7/100
  3. 3 Clover Middle 52.0/100
  4. 4 Oakridge Middle 50.7/100
  5. 5 Larne Elementary 50.6/100

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Which Clover school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Bethel Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Clover schools in this federal-data comparison at 57/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Clover, SC? ▼

Clover has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 9,038 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.4:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.