Public school / Primary
Sandlapper Elementary
Columbia, South Carolina
- NCES ID
- 450339001075
- District
- Richland 02
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Sandlapper Elementary is a public primary school in Columbia, South Carolina, run by Richland 02. It enrols 656 students — the 22191st 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
656
Teachers
47.0
Students per teacher
14.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
71.3%
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 Richland 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.
- 1Spring Valley High2,187 students
- 2Blythewood High2,094 students
- 3Ridge View High1,711 students
- 4Westwood High1,684 students
- 5Richland Northeast High1,359 students
- 6E. L. Wright Middle1,354 students
- 7Muller Road Middle1,246 students
- 8Summit Parkway Middle1,154 students
- Enrollment+15.7%
- Teachers+20.5%
- Students per teacher−1.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−21.3%
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