Arden Elementary

Located at 1300 Ashley Street, in Columbia, South Carolina, Arden Elementary is a close-knit elementary campus that educates 216 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Richland 01. By comparison, South Carolina's public schools average about 526 students each, so Arden Elementary sits 59% below that benchmark.

Richland 01 runs 47 schools in total, collectively educating 21,814 students. Arden Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Arden Elementary logs that the largest single group is Black, at 58% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 34% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 47%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Richland County indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,784 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Richland County runs 104 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,410 students), of which Arden Elementary is one.

Alcorn Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Arden Elementary's enrollment has decreased 34% since 2018, when it stood at 327 (now 216). The Black share of enrollment shrank from 77% to 58% over that span.

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