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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Great Falls Elementary

Great Falls, South Carolina

NCES ID
450153000291
District
Chester 01
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Great Falls Elementary is a public primary school in Great Falls, South Carolina, run by Chester 01. It enrols 348 students — the 58747th 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

348students

58747th nationally, tied with 138

Teachers

24.0FTE

55524th nationally, tied with 2,299

Students per teacher

14.5students

42676th nationally, tied with 991

Free or reduced-price lunch

100.0%percent

1st nationally, tied with 3,753

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 Chester 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. 1Chester Senior High754 students
  2. 2Chester Middle517 students
  3. 3Lewisville Elementary510 students
  4. 4Lewisville High416 students
  5. 5Lewisville Middle416 students
  6. 6Chester Park School Elementary of Inquiry409 students
  7. 7Great Falls High386 students
  8. 8Chester Park Elementary School for the Arts360 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−38.6%
  • Teachers−38.5%
  • Students per teacher+2.5%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+10.4%
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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.