Public school / Primary
Wellford Academy of Science and Technology
Wellford, South Carolina
- NCES ID
- 450360001021
- District
- Spartanburg 05
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Wellford Academy of Science and Technology is a public primary school in Wellford, South Carolina, run by Spartanburg 05. It enrols 474 students — the 40595th 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
474
Teachers
44.0
Students per teacher
10.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
88.6%
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 Spartanburg 05
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.
- 1James F. Byrnes High2,217 students
- 2Berry Shoals Intermediate902 students
- 3Florence Chapel Middle859 students
- 4Lyman Elementary835 students
- 5James Byrnes Freshman Academy820 students
- 6River Ridge Elementary778 students
- 7Abner Creek Academy752 students
- 8D. R. Hill Middle702 students
- Enrollment−16.4%
- Teachers+12.8%
- Students per teacher−23.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−2.2%
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