Public school / Primary / Charter
Felton Laboratory Charter School
Orangeburg, South Carolina
- NCES ID
- 450390101401
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Felton Laboratory Charter School is a public primary school in Orangeburg, South Carolina, run by Sc Public Charter School District. It enrols 317 students — the 63221st 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
317
Teachers
16.0
Students per teacher
19.8
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 Sc Public Charter School District
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.
- 1York Preparatory Academy1,673 students
- 2Legacy Early College1,610 students
- 3Bridges Preparatory School1,271 students
- 4High Point Academy1,251 students
- 5Green Charter School979 students
- 6East Point Academy776 students
- 7Fox Creek High659 students
- 8Riverwalk Academy628 students
- Enrollment−44.1%
- Teachers−59.0%
- Students per teacher+39.9%
- 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