Drayton Mills Elementary

Drayton Mills Elementary operates as a large elementary campus in Spartanburg, South Carolina, one of the schools within Spartanburg 07. Current enrollment sits at 810 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 54% bigger than the state mean of about 526.

Spartanburg 07 runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 7,624 students. Drayton Mills Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Drayton Mills Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Black (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 26% White, 22% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Drayton Mills Elementary has 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Spartanburg County put the typical household earns roughly $66,234 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Spartanburg County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,477 students), Drayton Mills Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Spartanburg High, roughly 1.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Inside the community feed, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.