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Williston, South Carolina - 5 schools
1,194
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
-
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Barnwell 48 operates 5 public schools serving 1,194 students, placing it among the smallest districts in South Carolina. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 2 high, 1 middle schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Barnwell County.
. Use the school table below to drill into any individual campus for its own demographic and resource profile.
Its largest campus is Macedonia Elementary-Middle, enrolling 343 students (29% of the district's total enrollment).
Macedonia Elementary-Middle accounts for 28.7% of all Barnwell 48 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Barnwell 48-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Barnwell 48 school enrollment varies 2.2× across entities
Barnwell 48 school enrollment ranges from 154 students (lowest) to 343 students (highest), a spread of 189 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Barnwell 48 has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 57.6% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.