Public school / High
Silver Bluff High
Aiken, South Carolina
- NCES ID
- 450072001323
- District
- Aiken 01
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Silver Bluff High is a public high school in Aiken, South Carolina, run by Aiken 01. It enrols 708 students — the 18856th 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
708
Teachers
42.0
Students per teacher
16.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
65.4%
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 Aiken 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.
- 1North Augusta High1,719 students
- 2Midland Valley High1,477 students
- 3South Aiken High1,356 students
- 4Aiken High1,195 students
- 5Silver Bluff High708 students
- 6North Augusta Elementary690 students
- 7Paul Knox Middle683 students
- 8Hammond Hill Elementary677 students
- Enrollment+24.9%
- Teachers+7.7%
- Students per teacher+19.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−27.8%
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