Fork Shoals School

Located at 916 McKelvey Road, in Pelzer, South Carolina, Fork Shoals School is a reasonably sized elementary campus that caters to 747 students (grades K through 5), run under Greenville 01. That puts it 42% bigger than the typical public school in South Carolina, which averages around 526 students.

Greenville 01 runs 89 schools in total, collectively educating 78,776 students. Fork Shoals School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Fork Shoals School records that White students make up the majority at 70%. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 10% Black, 6% multiracial. Compared to Greenville County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, Greenville County reports that median household income runs about $76,932, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Greenville County's 109 public schools (combined enrollment of about 89,863 students), Fork Shoals School is one campus in the mix.

Ralph Chandler Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Fork Shoals School.

Fork Shoals School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fork Shoals School has held roughly steady, going from 741 students in 2018 to 747 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 75% to 70% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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