Public school / High
Andrew Jackson High
Kershaw, South Carolina
- NCES ID
- 450258000688
- District
- Lancaster 01
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Andrew Jackson High is a public high school in Kershaw, South Carolina, run by Lancaster 01. It enrols 622 students — the 24871st largest of 1,288 public schools in South Carolina.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
622
Teachers
44.0
Students per teacher
14.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
60.5%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Lancaster 01
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Indian Land High1,678 students
- 2Lancaster High1,463 students
- 3Harrisburg Elementary1,089 students
- 4Indian Land Intermediate1,074 students
- 5Indian Land Elementary1,035 students
- 6Indian Land Middle989 students
- 7Van Wyck Elementary790 students
- 8Buford Elementary779 students
- Enrollment+9.7%
- Teachers+12.8%
- Students per teacher−0.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−33.2%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory