Flowertown Elementary

Flowertown Elementary is a medium-sized primary school in Summerville, South Carolina, run under Dorchester 02. The school instructs 783 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 49% larger than the typical public school in South Carolina, which averages around 526 students.

Dorchester 02 comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 25,928 students; Flowertown Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Flowertown Elementary shows that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 26% Black, 13% multiracial, 13% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Flowertown Elementary lists 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. That tracks the state average closely.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Dorchester County put the typical household earns roughly $78,198 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Dorchester County's 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,832 students), Flowertown Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Newington Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Flowertown Elementary.

Flowertown Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Flowertown Elementary has decreased 17%, going from 940 students in 2018 to 783 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 58% to 46% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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