Public school / Primary
Saluda River Academy for the Arts
West Columbia, South Carolina
- NCES ID
- 450273000733
- District
- Lexington 02
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Saluda River Academy for the Arts is a public primary school in West Columbia, South Carolina, run by Lexington 02. It enrols 344 students — the 59307th 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
344
Teachers
29.0
Students per teacher
11.9
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 Lexington 02
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.
- 1Airport High1,428 students
- 2Brookland-Cayce High1,171 students
- 3Riverbank Elementary1,015 students
- 4Cayce Elementary998 students
- 5Herbert A. Wood Elementary967 students
- 6R. H. Fulmer Middle568 students
- 7Northside Middle555 students
- 8Cyril B. Busbee Creative Arts Academy420 students
- Enrollment−39.3%
- Teachers−25.6%
- Students per teacher−15.9%
- 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