Clear Dot Charter School

Clear Dot Charter School is a multi-level school of small scale in Columbia, South Carolina, overseen by Charter Institute at Erskine, educateing 474 students in grades pre-K through 11. Compared to the state average of about 1,077 students per school, that is 56% below typical.

Charter Institute at Erskine runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 28,041 students. Clear Dot Charter School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Clear Dot Charter School reports that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 12% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Richland County as a whole is about 47% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Clear Dot Charter School tighter than the state norm the norm.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Richland County) reports that median household income runs about $63,784, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Richland County's 104 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,410 students), Clear Dot Charter School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Logan Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. Clear Dot Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Clear Dot Charter School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.