Carlisle-Foster's Grove Elementary

Carlisle-Foster's Grove Elementary is one of the moderately sized elementary-level communitys in Chesnee, South Carolina, operated by Spartanburg 02, with 551 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Within Spartanburg 02, which oversees 14 schools and 11,806 students, Carlisle-Foster's Grove Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Carlisle-Foster's Grove Elementary shows that 79% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 8% multiracial, 7% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, Spartanburg County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Spartanburg County) logs that median household earnings sit near $66,234, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Spartanburg County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,477 students), of which Carlisle-Foster's Grove Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Shoally Creek Elementary, around 3.4 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Carlisle-Foster's Grove Elementary operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carlisle-Foster's Grove Elementary has ticked up 25%, going from 441 students in 2018 to 551 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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