Carver-Lyon Elementary

Located at 2100 Waverly Street, in Columbia, South Carolina, Carver-Lyon Elementary is a small elementary campus that works with 417 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Richland 01. By comparison, South Carolina's public schools average about 526 students each, so Carver-Lyon Elementary sits 21% below that benchmark.

Across the 47 schools in Richland 01 (21,814 students total), Carver-Lyon Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Carver-Lyon Elementary shows that Black students make up the majority at 72%. The remainder reads as 15% Hispanic, 8% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Richland County as a whole is about 47% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Carver-Lyon Elementary has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.9:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, 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%. In all, Richland County runs 104 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,410 students), of which Carver-Lyon Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is C. A. Johnson High, 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.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carver-Lyon Elementary has held roughly steady, going from 410 students in 2018 to 417 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 83% to 72%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 today.

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