Burton Pack Elementary

Burton Pack Elementary is a primary school of compact scale in Columbia, South Carolina, one of the schools within Richland 01, caters to 255 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 526 students per school, that is 52% below typical.

Richland 01 comprises 47 schools with combined enrollment of 21,814 students; Burton Pack Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Burton Pack Elementary shows that 89% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest consists of 5% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Richland County as a whole is about 47% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Burton Pack Elementary has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Richland County indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,784 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Richland County runs 104 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,410 students), of which Burton Pack Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Arden Elementary, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 48%: 492 students in 2018 compared to 255 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 94% to 89% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

On this page, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.