Belton Preparatory Academy

Belton Preparatory Academy operates as a mid-sized K-5 school in Belton, South Carolina, run under Charter Institute at Erskine. Current enrollment sits at 449 students spanning grades K through 8.

Charter Institute at Erskine runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 28,041 students. Belton Preparatory Academy is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Belton Preparatory Academy shows that 79% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 11% Black, 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Anderson County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Belton Preparatory Academy has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Belton Preparatory Academy higher than the state norm the norm.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Anderson County) logs that median household earnings sit near $66,651, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Anderson County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,806 students), Belton Preparatory Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Belton Middle, around 1.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Belton Preparatory Academy.

The campus sits in an outlying setting. Belton Preparatory Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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