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Camden, South Carolina - 16 schools
An equity score of 26/100 ranks Kershaw 01 #62 of 73 districts in South Carolina (state average 51). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,827 per pupil, Kershaw 01 ranks #60 of 74 South Carolina districts by per-pupil spending (South Carolina districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
11,138
Total Enrollment
16
Schools
$11,827
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Kershaw 01 operates 16 public schools serving 11,138 students, placing it among the smaller districts in South Carolina. The school portfolio breaks down into 9 combined, 4 middle, 3 high 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 Kershaw County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,827 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 38.3% local, 48.1% state, and 13.6% 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 26/100, ranked #62 of 73 in South Carolina against a state average of 51, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 3 of 16 schools offering Advanced Placement (21 AP courses district-wide), a 429:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 25.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 54.1% White, 25.1% African American, 12.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Jackson School, with a diversity index of 69.7/100.
Its largest campus is Lugoff-Elgin High, enrolling 1,759 students (16% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Midway Elementary, at 338 students, a 5x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Lugoff-Elgin High accounts for 15.8% of all Kershaw 01 student enrollment
That concentration means Kershaw 01-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.
Kershaw 01 school enrollment varies 5.2× across entities
Kershaw 01 school enrollment ranges from 338 students (lowest) to 1,759 students (highest), a spread of 1,421 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.
Kershaw 01 has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 79.7% 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 — including this one — 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.
Kershaw 01 student-counselor ratio is 429:1 — 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.
Kershaw 01 chronic absenteeism rate is 25.2% — 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 Kershaw 01 is typically wider than the Kershaw 01-aggregate figure suggests.