Bay Road Elementary

Bay Road Elementary operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in Hartsville, South Carolina, part of Darlington 01. Current enrollment sits at 563 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Darlington 01 runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 8,793 students. Bay Road Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Bay Road Elementary lists that the largest single group is Black at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 35% White, 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average.

In the area at large, Darlington County reports that median household earnings sit near $48,581, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. In all, Darlington County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,482 students), of which Bay Road Elementary is one.

Hartsville Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bay Road Elementary.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.