Clemson Elementary

Clemson Elementary is an elementary school of well-populated scale in Clemson, South Carolina, operated by Pickens 01, hosting 794 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 51% larger than the state mean of about 526.

Pickens 01 comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 16,313 students; Clemson Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Clemson Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment. Other groups include 11% Black, 10% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Pickens County put the typical household earns roughly $61,064 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Clemson Elementary is one of 27 public schools in Pickens County (combined enrollment of about 16,866 students).

The closest other public school is Riverside Middle, roughly 2.4 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 9%: 869 students in 2018 compared to 794 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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