C. A. Johnson High

Located at 2219 Barhamville Road, in Columbia, South Carolina, C. A. Johnson High is a micro-enrollment 9-12 campus that enrolls 344 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Richland 01. By comparison, South Carolina's public schools average about 953 students each, so C. A. Johnson High sits 64% below that benchmark.

C. A. Johnson High is one of 47 schools operated by Richland 01, a district that enrolls 21,814 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, C. A. Johnson High logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (93%). Beyond that, the school records 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Richland County as a whole is about 47% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, C. A. Johnson High has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.1:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, census data for Richland County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,784 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Richland County's 104 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,410 students), C. A. Johnson High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Carver-Lyon Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at C. A. Johnson High has ticked down 13%, going from 396 students in 2018 to 344 in 2025.

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