Child Development Center at Woods Road

Child Development Center at Woods Road is a minimally staffed primary school in Florence, South Carolina, overseen by Florence 01. The school works with 189 students in grade pre-K. That puts it 64% smaller than the typical public school in South Carolina, which averages around 526 students.

Florence 01 comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 15,861 students; Child Development Center at Woods Road is among them.

Demographically, Child Development Center at Woods Road records that 52% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 33% White, 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

In terms of school funding signals, Child Development Center at Woods Road reports 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Florence County indicate median household earnings sit near $58,305, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Child Development Center at Woods Road is one of 39 public schools in Florence County (combined enrollment of about 21,641 students).

Nearest neighbor: Royall Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Child Development Center at Woods Road operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 8%: 175 students in 2018 compared to 189 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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