Public school / Primary
Orchard Park Elementary
Westminster, South Carolina
- NCES ID
- 450306000252
- District
- Oconee 01
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Orchard Park Elementary is a public primary school in Westminster, South Carolina, run by Oconee 01. It enrols 422 students — the 47809th 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
422
Teachers
38.0
Students per teacher
11.1
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 Oconee 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.
- 1Walhalla High1,139 students
- 2Seneca High1,052 students
- 3Walhalla Middle845 students
- 4West-Oak High813 students
- 5Seneca Middle781 students
- 6West Oak Middle697 students
- 7Northside Elementary658 students
- 8Blue Ridge Elementary597 students
- Enrollment−25.6%
- Teachers−2.6%
- Students per teacher−21.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+10.4%
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