17 public K-12 schools in Fort Mill from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Fort Mill has more public-school enrollment than 90% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Fort Mill 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.
Fort Mill's list includes 4 elementary, 5 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.
Fort Mill's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 98th 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 19-point gap between Orchard Park Elementary and Doby's Bridge Elementary 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.
Fort Mill school enrollment ranges from 555 students (lowest) to 2,115 students (highest), a spread of 1,560 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
Fort Mill'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
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.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Orchard Park Elementary | 70 |
| 2. | Fort Mill Middle | 65 |
| 3. | Forest Creek Middle | 63 |
| 4. | Banks Trail Middle | 63 |
| 5. | Springfield Middle | 62 |
| 6. | Pleasant Knoll Middle | 61 |
| 7. | Fort Mill Elementary | 60 |
| 8. | Riverview Elementary | 59 |
| 9. | Pleasant Knoll Elementary | 58 |
| 10. | Sugar Creek Elementary | 58 |
| 11. | Kings Town Elementary | 56 |
| 12. | Springfield Elementary | 55 |
| 13. | Catawba Ridge High School | 54 |
| 14. | Nation Ford High | 53 |
| 15. | River Trail Elementary | 53 |
| 16. | Fort Mill High | 52 |
| 17. | Doby's Bridge Elementary | 51 |
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.
Orchard Park Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Fort Mill schools in this federal-data comparison at 70/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Fort Mill has 17 public schools with a total enrollment of 16,010 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.
