Cayce Elementary

Set in Cayce, South Carolina, Cayce Elementary is a sprawling K-5 school, part of Lexington 02. It works with 977 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 86% bigger than the state mean of about 526.

Lexington 02 runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 8,465 students. Cayce Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Cayce Elementary shows that the largest single group is Black at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 26% Hispanic, 19% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 15% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average.

In the broader community, Lexington County reports that 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 Cayce Elementary is one.

Cyril B. Busbee Creative Arts Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cayce Elementary.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Cayce Elementary's enrollment has edged down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 1,026 (now 977). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 20% to 26% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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