NCES CCD 2024-25 22 schools SC

Best-Resourced Schools in Florence, SC

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

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22
Schools
15,351
Students
41.6/100
Avg Resource Index
14.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Florence has more public-school enrollment than 89% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Florence sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Florence's list includes 10 elementary, 4 middle, and 3 high-school campuses, plus 5 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

83.8% of enrollment in reporting Florence schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 2 districts. That pairing makes a citywide average especially easy to misread: the need measure follows students, but staffing decisions, calendars, program rules, and federal allocations are administered through separate district structures. The 32-point gap between Child Development Center at Woods Road and Greenwood Elementary shows how much reported resource capacity can vary inside the same municipal label. Compare schools within the same district first, then use the city view to see how those local systems differ.

City enrollment
Top 11%
School count
Top 13%
Resource Index average
53rd percentile
Teacher staffing
63rd percentile

Florence school enrollment varies 34× across entities

Florence school enrollment ranges from 54 students (lowest) to 1,827 students (highest), a spread of 1,773 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. 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

Florence reports 83.8% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Florence student-teacher ratio is 14.3:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within Florence is typically wider than the Florence-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Child Development Center at Woods Road 61
2. Virtus Academy of South Carolina 52
3. Southside Middle 46
4. Henry L. Sneed Middle 46
5. Royall Elementary 46
6. Briggs Elementary 45
7. Wilson High 43
8. Lucy T. Davis Elementary 43
9. John W. Moore Middle 42
10. Delmae Heights Elementary 42
11. Carver Elementary 42
12. West Florence High 41
13. Williams Middle 41
14. South Florence High 40
15. Mclaurin Elementary 39
16. R.N. Beck Child Development Center 39
17. Henry Timrod Elementary 38
18. Wallace Gregg Elementary 38
19. North Vista Elementary 36
20. Theodore Lester Elementary 36
21. Palmetto Youth Academy Charter 30
22. Greenwood Elementary 29

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Florence

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 Delmae Heights Elementary 68.6/100
  2. 2 John W. Moore Middle 66.6/100
  3. 3 Royall Elementary 65.6/100
  4. 4 West Florence High 65.5/100
  5. 5 Mclaurin Elementary 63.2/100

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Which Florence school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Child Development Center at Woods Road has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Florence schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Florence, SC? ▼

Florence has 22 public schools with a total enrollment of 15,351 students. 2 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.3:1.

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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.