Public school / Middle
Blenheim Middle School of Discovery
Blenheim, South Carolina
- NCES ID
- 450297000024
- District
- Marlboro 01
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Blenheim Middle School of Discovery is a public middle school in Blenheim, South Carolina, run by Marlboro 01. It enrols 444 students — the 44729th 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
444
Teachers
30.0
Students per teacher
14.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
100.0%
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 Marlboro 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.
- 1Marlboro County High1,047 students
- 2Mccoll Elementary/Middle643 students
- 3Bennettsville Primary552 students
- 4Blenheim Middle School of Discovery444 students
- 5Wallace Elementary/Middle432 students
- 6Bennettsville Intermediate225 students
- 7Clio Elementary206 students
- Enrollment−21.7%
- Teachers−23.1%
- Students per teacher+4.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+10.4%
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