Calhoun Falls Charter School

Calhoun Falls Charter School is one of the minimally staffed four-year high schools in Calhoun Falls, South Carolina, one of the schools within Charter Institute at Erskine, with 159 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 83% below the state mean of about 953.

Charter Institute at Erskine runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 28,041 students. Calhoun Falls Charter School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Calhoun Falls Charter School logs that 62% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 33% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Abbeville County as a whole is about 25% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Around the school, census data for Abbeville County shows median household earnings sit near $52,935, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Calhoun Falls Charter School is one of 10 public schools in Abbeville County (combined enrollment of about 2,905 students).

John C. Calhoun Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area. Calhoun Falls Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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