Arcadia Elementary

Arcadia Elementary, a low-enrollment elementary campus in Spartanburg, South Carolina, run under Spartanburg 06, educates 400 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, South Carolina's public schools average about 526 students each, so Arcadia Elementary sits 24% leaner than that benchmark.

Spartanburg 06 runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 11,714 students. Arcadia Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Arcadia Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 65% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% Black, 13% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Spartanburg County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Spartanburg County put median household income runs about $66,234, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Spartanburg County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,477 students), of which Arcadia Elementary is one.

Spartanburg Six Child Development Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 42%: 694 students in 2018 compared to 400 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 52% to 65% across the same window.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.