NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools SC

Best-Resourced Schools in Kershaw, SC

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

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

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Schools

3,029

Students

42.5/100

Avg Resource Index

15:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Kershaw has more public-school enrollment than 29% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Kershaw 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.

The listed grade span is structurally narrow

Kershaw's 6 listed schools do not form a conventional mix of elementary, middle, and high-school campuses. The missing or thin grade bands make all-school city averages less representative of a typical K–12 pathway; district boundaries and nearby-city options may matter more for the grades not well represented here.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 19-point gap between Andrew Jackson High and North Central Elementary shows the range hidden by Kershaw's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment: Top 71%
School count: Top 79%
Resource Index average: 58th percentile
Teacher staffing: 54th percentile

North Central High accounts for 18.6% of all Kershaw public-school enrollment

That concentration means Kershaw-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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Kershaw reports 78.1% 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Kershaw student-teacher ratio is 15.0:1 — 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 Kershaw is typically wider than the Kershaw-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Andrew Jackson High	54	557	high	Lancaster 01
2.	North Central Middle	51	408	middle	Kershaw 01
3.	North Central High	40	563	high	Kershaw 01
4.	Kershaw Elementary	39	512	Combined	Lancaster 01
5.	Andrew Jackson Middle	36	480	middle	Lancaster 01
6.	North Central Elementary	35	509	Combined	Kershaw 01

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Kershaw

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.

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Which Kershaw school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Andrew Jackson High has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Kershaw schools in this federal-data comparison at 54/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Kershaw, SC? ▼

Kershaw has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,029 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15:1.

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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.