Black Street Early Childhood Center

Black Street Early Childhood Center is a small elementary school. Its address is in Walterboro, South Carolina. The student body numbers 358 students, from pre-K through kindergarten. Average enrollment for elementary schools in South Carolina is about 526, so this school runs 32% smaller than that.

Colleton 01 (8 schools, 4,539 students) runs Black Street Early Childhood Center.

No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Black Street Early Childhood Center. The largest is Black students, at 48%. The next largest groups are 32% White, 10% Hispanic, and 9% multiracial. In Colleton County overall, about 34% of residents are Black. The school's diversity index is 65%, meaning two students picked at random have a 65% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

Black Street Early Childhood Center counts 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 14.3 students for each one. This ratio sits 1.0 above the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in South Carolina.

Census Bureau estimates for Colleton County show that the median household income is $51,114, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 17% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 17%. There are 9 public schools in Colleton County, enrolling about 4,539 students in all.

Of nearby public schools, Forest Hills Elementary is the closest, at about 2.2 miles. Black Street Early Childhood Center is one of several public schools in the area, with 4 others within five miles.

NCES describes the area around Black Street Early Childhood Center as Town: Distant, meaning in a town some distance from an urbanized area.

Enrollment grew 10% from its 2020-21 level of 326.

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