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Public school / Primary

Carolina Forest Elementary

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

NCES ID
450249000191
District
Horry 01
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Carolina Forest Elementary is a public primary school in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, run by Horry 01. It enrols 1,246 students — the 5502nd 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

1,246students

5502nd nationally, tied with 14

Teachers

81.0FTE

4729th nationally, tied with 148

Students per teacher

15.4students

51310th nationally, tied with 952

Free or reduced-price lunch

68.0%percent

32764th nationally, tied with 93

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 Horry 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. 1Carolina Forest High3,059 students
  2. 2St. James High1,837 students
  3. 3Socastee High1,719 students
  4. 4Conway High1,713 students
  5. 5North Myrtle Beach High1,643 students
  6. 6Myrtle Beach High1,633 students
  7. 7River Oaks Elementary1,314 students
  8. 8North Myrtle Beach Middle1,286 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+119.8%
  • Teachers+107.7%
  • Students per teacher+8.8%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−24.9%
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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.