Clinton Elementary

Clinton Elementary is a primary school of small scale in Clinton, South Carolina, part of Laurens 56, educateing 422 students in grades K through 5.

Laurens 56 comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,707 students; Clinton Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Clinton Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Black (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 34% White, 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Laurens County put median household earnings sit near $57,623, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Laurens County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,681 students), Clinton Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Thornwell Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Clinton Elementary.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Clinton Elementary's enrollment has shrank 31% since 2018, when it stood at 610 (now 422). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 44% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.