Brown's Ferry Elementary School for the Creative and Perform

Brown's Ferry Elementary School for the Creative and Perform operates as an one-room-style elementary-level community in Georgetown, South Carolina, run under Georgetown 01. Current enrollment sits at 163 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 69% below the typical public school in South Carolina, which averages around 526 students.

Brown's Ferry Elementary School for the Creative and Perform is one of 19 schools operated by Georgetown 01, a district that hosts 8,208 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Brown's Ferry Elementary School for the Creative and Perform lists that 88% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder consists of 6% White, 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Brown's Ferry Elementary School for the Creative and Perform has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average.

Across the wider county, Georgetown County reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,713 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Georgetown County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,208 students), of which Brown's Ferry Elementary School for the Creative and Perform is one.

Nearest neighbor: McDonald Elementary, around 7.5 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 7 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 165 students in 2018 compared to 163 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 97% to 88%.

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