Carolina Springs Elementary

Carolina Springs Elementary is a tight-knit primary school in Lexington, South Carolina, overseen by Lexington 01. The school instructs 438 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Lexington 01 comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 27,074 students; Carolina Springs Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Carolina Springs Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 27% Black, 9% multiracial, 9% Hispanic. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 72%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Carolina Springs Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, census data for Lexington County shows median household earnings sit near $77,408, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Lexington County runs 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,555 students), of which Carolina Springs Elementary is one.

Carolina Springs Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Carolina Springs Elementary's enrollment has edged down 45% since 2018, when it stood at 800 (now 438). The White share of enrollment fell from 63% to 54% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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