Carolina Springs Middle

Carolina Springs Middle is one of the mid-sized middle schools in Lexington, South Carolina, one of the schools within Lexington 01, with 791 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 27% larger than the typical public school in South Carolina, which averages around 622 students.

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

In terms of who attends, Carolina Springs Middle lists that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 31% Black, 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 72%.

On the income-and-resources front, Carolina Springs Middle lists 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Carolina Springs Middle tighter than the state norm the norm.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Lexington County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,408 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Carolina Springs Middle is one of 76 public schools in Lexington County (combined enrollment of about 64,555 students).

Carolina Springs Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 9%: 872 students in 2018 compared to 791 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 64% to 48% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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