Public school / High
Pickens High
Pickens, South Carolina
- NCES ID
- 450333000904
- District
- Pickens 01
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Pickens High is a public high school in Pickens, South Carolina, run by Pickens 01. It enrols 1,376 students — the 4473rd 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
1,376
Teachers
84.0
Students per teacher
16.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
66.4%
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 Pickens 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.
- 1Easley High1,904 students
- 2Pickens High1,376 students
- 3Richard H. Gettys Middle1,284 students
- 4D. W. Daniel High1,201 students
- 5R. C. Edwards Middle840 students
- 6Clemson Elementary794 students
- 7Forest Acres Elementary710 students
- 8Liberty High684 students
- Enrollment+142.7%
- Teachers+115.4%
- Students per teacher+15.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−26.7%
Where this sits
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