Public school / Middle
William J. Clark Middle
Orangeburg, South Carolina
- NCES ID
- 450391001370
- District
- Orangeburg
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
William J. Clark Middle is a public middle school in Orangeburg, South Carolina, run by Orangeburg. It enrols 687 students — the 20130th 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
687
Teachers
40.0
Students per teacher
17.2
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 Orangeburg
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.
- 1Orangeburg Wilkinson High1,073 students
- 2Lake Marion High School692 students
- 3William J. Clark Middle687 students
- 4Edisto High677 students
- 5Marshall Elementary651 students
- 6Edisto Primary554 students
- 7Carver Edisto Middle515 students
- 8Sheridan Elementary486 students
- Enrollment+21.2%
- Teachers+2.6%
- Students per teacher+21.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+10.4%
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