Felton Laboratory Charter School

Set in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Felton Laboratory Charter School is a close-knit elementary school, run under SC Public Charter School District. It hosts 279 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, South Carolina's public schools average about 526 students each, so Felton Laboratory Charter School sits 47% below that benchmark.

SC Public Charter School District comprises 43 schools with combined enrollment of 21,383 students; Felton Laboratory Charter School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Felton Laboratory Charter School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (85%); the rest looks like 5% Asian, 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Orangeburg County put median household income runs about $45,675, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Felton Laboratory Charter School is one of 34 public schools in Orangeburg County (combined enrollment of about 11,507 students).

Robert E. Howard Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Felton Laboratory Charter School.

Felton Laboratory Charter School operates from a town-center location. Felton Laboratory Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Felton Laboratory Charter School has edged down 28%, going from 388 students in 2018 to 279 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 95% to 85%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 today.

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