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Greenwood, South Carolina - 13 schools
An equity score of 62/100 ranks Greenwood 50 #25 of 73 districts in South Carolina (state average 51). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $13,166 per pupil, Greenwood 50 ranks #42 of 74 South Carolina districts by per-pupil spending (South Carolina districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
8,610
Total Enrollment
13
Schools
$13,166
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Greenwood 50 operates 13 public schools serving 8,610 students, placing it among the smaller districts in South Carolina. The school portfolio breaks down into 6 combined, 3 middle, 2 high, 2 elementary schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Greenwood County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,166 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 74 South Carolina districts by per-pupil spending. See how South Carolina compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 28.8% local, 49.6% state, and 21.6% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 62/100, ranked #25 of 73 in South Carolina against a state average of 51, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 2 of 13 schools offering Advanced Placement (24 AP courses district-wide), a 417.9:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 24.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 41.4% African American, 36.7% White, 16.3% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Greenwood High, with a diversity index of 68.4/100.
Its largest campus is Greenwood High, enrolling 1,724 students (20% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Hodges Elementary, at 349 students, a 5x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Greenwood High accounts for 20.0% of all Greenwood 50 student enrollment
That concentration means Greenwood 50-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Greenwood 50 school enrollment varies 4.9× across entities
Greenwood 50 school enrollment ranges from 349 students (lowest) to 1,724 students (highest), a spread of 1,375 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.
Greenwood 50 has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 100.0% 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). Eligibility here is a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding 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.
Greenwood 50 student-counselor ratio is 418:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Greenwood 50 chronic absenteeism rate is 24.3% — 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 Greenwood 50 is typically wider than the Greenwood 50-aggregate figure suggests.