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Spartanburg, South Carolina - 5 schools
161
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
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Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Deaf & Blind School operates 5 public schools serving 161 students, placing it among the smallest districts in South Carolina. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 combined, 2 high 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 Spartanburg County.
a 159:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 26.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 38.9% White, 34.0% African American, 18.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Sc School for the Deaf Elementary/Middle, with a diversity index of 75.2/100.
Its largest campus is Cedar Springs Academy, enrolling 42 students (26% of the district's total enrollment).
Cedar Springs Academy accounts for 26.1% of all Deaf & Blind School student enrollment
That concentration means Deaf & Blind School-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.
Deaf & Blind School student-counselor ratio is 159:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Deaf & Blind School chronic absenteeism rate is 26.0% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Deaf & Blind School is typically wider than the Deaf & Blind School-aggregate figure suggests.