Public school / Other
Scdjj Evaluation and Detention Center
Columbia, South Carolina
- NCES ID
- 450342001186
- District
- Dept of Juvenile Justice
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Scdjj Evaluation and Detention Center is a public other school in Columbia, South Carolina, run by Dept of Juvenile Justice. 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
43.0
Students per teacher
9.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
99.3%
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 Dept of Juvenile Justice
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.
- 1Scdjj Evaluation and Detention Center422 students
- Enrollment−25.6%
- Teachers+10.3%
- Students per teacher−30.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+9.6%
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