Cyril B. Busbee Creative Arts Academy

Cyril B. Busbee Creative Arts Academy is a junior high of intimate scale in Cayce, South Carolina, overseen by Lexington 02, enrolling 442 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, South Carolina's public schools average about 622 students each, so Cyril B. Busbee Creative Arts Academy sits 29% smaller than that benchmark.

Lexington 02 comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 8,465 students; Cyril B. Busbee Creative Arts Academy is among them.

In terms of who attends, Cyril B. Busbee Creative Arts Academy records that the most-represented group is Black (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 29% White, 23% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 15% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Cyril B. Busbee Creative Arts Academy reports 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Lexington County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $77,408 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Lexington County runs 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,555 students), of which Cyril B. Busbee Creative Arts Academy is one.

Cayce Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Cyril B. Busbee Creative Arts Academy operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 12%: 396 students in 2018 compared to 442 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 48% to 36%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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