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Public school / High

Buford High

Lancaster, South Carolina

NCES ID
450258001261
District
Lancaster 01
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Buford High is a public high school in Lancaster, South Carolina, run by Lancaster 01. It enrols 561 students — the 30448th largest of 1,288 public schools in South Carolina.

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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

561students

30448th nationally, tied with 108

Teachers

42.0FTE

22284th nationally, tied with 1,134

Students per teacher

13.4students

32055th nationally, tied with 927

Free or reduced-price lunch

53.5%percent

46993rd nationally, tied with 121

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.

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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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Indian Land High1,678 students
  2. 2Lancaster High1,463 students
  3. 3Harrisburg Elementary1,089 students
  4. 4Indian Land Intermediate1,074 students
  5. 5Indian Land Elementary1,035 students
  6. 6Indian Land Middle989 students
  7. 7Van Wyck Elementary790 students
  8. 8Buford Elementary779 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: South Carolina median across 1,288 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−1.1%
  • Teachers+7.7%
  • Students per teacher−5.3%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−40.9%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.