Buena Vista Elementary

Buena Vista Elementary, a heavily attended primary school in Greer, South Carolina, operated by Greenville 01, serves 834 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 59% bigger than the state mean of about 526.

Across the 89 schools in Greenville 01 (78,776 students total), Buena Vista Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Buena Vista Elementary lists that the largest single group is White, at 65% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 15% Black, 9% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Buena Vista Elementary has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Greenville County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,932 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Greenville County's 109 public schools (combined enrollment of about 89,863 students), Buena Vista Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Riverside High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Buena Vista Elementary.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 8%: 905 students in 2018 compared to 834 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment ticked down from 11% to 5% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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