Clay Hill Elementary

Set in Ridgeville, South Carolina, Clay Hill Elementary is a tiny K-5 school, part of Dorchester 04. It serves 174 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 67% leaner than the state mean of about 526.

Clay Hill Elementary is one of 7 schools operated by Dorchester 04, a district that educates 2,566 students overall.

Demographically, Clay Hill Elementary logs that the largest single group is Black at 44%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 26% White, 13% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 3% Native American. By comparison, Dorchester County as a whole is about 25% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Clay Hill Elementary shows 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Dorchester County) logs that median household earnings sit near $78,198, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Dorchester County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,832 students), of which Clay Hill Elementary is one.

MacDougall High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Clay Hill Elementary's enrollment has increased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 161 (now 174). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 32% to 26% over that span.

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