County / FIPS 45079
Richland County
South Carolina
Richland County runs 104 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 5 Medicare-certified hospitals reporting to CMS, of which 4 carry an overall star rating.
At a glance
Public schools
104
Hospitals
5
With a star rating
4
Land area
757
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Richland County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$80.2B
Per resident
$192,826
Change since FY2021
+12%
Fiscal years covered
5
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| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $72B |
| 2022 | $63B |
| 2023 | $71B |
| 2024 | $76B |
| 2025 | $80B |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Richland County ranks 6th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Richland County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Columbia Sc Va Medical Center | Columbia | |
| Musc Health Columbia Medical Center Downtown | Columbia | |
| Prisma Health Baptist | Columbia | |
| Prisma Health Richland Hospital | Columbia | |
| G Werber Bryan Psych Hosp | Columbia | Not rated |
Public schools in Richland County
The 40 most complete records of 104. Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| A. C. Flora High | Richland 01 | Columbia | 1,352 |
| A. C. Moore Elementary | Richland 01 | Columbia | 204 |
| A. J. Lewis Greenview Elementary | Richland 01 | Columbia | 375 |
| Alcorn Middle | Richland 01 | Columbia | 370 |
| Annie Burnside Elementary | Richland 01 | Columbia | 328 |
| Arden Elementary | Richland 01 | Columbia | 234 |
| Ballentine Elementary | Lexington 05 | Irmo | 521 |
| Bethel-Hanberry Elementary | Richland 02 | Blythewood | 759 |
| Blythewood High | Richland 02 | Blythewood | 2,094 |
| Blythewood Middle | Richland 02 | Blythewood | 796 |
| Bookman Road Elementary | Richland 02 | Elgin | 499 |
| Bradley Elementary | Richland 01 | Columbia | 437 |
| Brennen Elementary | Richland 01 | Columbia | 806 |
| Bridge Creek Elementary | Richland 02 | Elgin | 558 |
| Brockman Elementary | Richland 01 | Columbia | 268 |
| Burton Pack Elementary | Richland 01 | Columbia | 388 |
| C. A. Johnson High | Richland 01 | Columbia | 364 |
| Carolina School for Inquiry | Richland 01 | Columbia | 96 |
| Carver-Lyon Elementary | Richland 01 | Columbia | 387 |
| Catawba Trail Elementary | Richland 02 | Elgin | 591 |
| Caughman Road Elementary | Richland 01 | Columbia | 707 |
| Chapin Middle | Lexington 05 | Chapin | 991 |
| Clear Dot Charter School | Charter Institute at Erskine | Columbia | 338 |
| Columbia High | Richland 01 | Columbia | 665 |
| Crayton Middle | Richland 01 | Columbia | 905 |
| Dent Middle | Richland 02 | Columbia | 1,018 |
| Dreher High | Richland 01 | Columbia | 1,150 |
| Dutch Fork Elementary | Lexington 05 | Irmo | 475 |
| Dutch Fork High | Lexington 05 | Irmo | 1,726 |
| Dutch Fork Middle | Lexington 05 | Irmo | 921 |
| E. L. Wright Middle | Richland 02 | Columbia | 1,354 |
| Eau Claire High | Richland 01 | Columbia | 627 |
| Edward E. Taylor Elementary | Richland 01 | Columbia | 225 |
| Forest Heights Elementary | Richland 01 | Columbia | 441 |
| Forest Lake Elementary | Richland 02 | Columbia | 614 |
| Gadsden Elementary | Richland 01 | Gadsden | 132 |
| Green Charter School of the Midlands | Sc Public Charter School District | Irmo | 302 |
| H. B. Rhame Elementary | Richland 01 | Columbia | 446 |
| H. E. Corley Elementary | Lexington 05 | Irmo | 558 |
| Hand Middle | Richland 01 | Columbia | 652 |