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Fountain Inn Elementary
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Fountain Inn Elementary
Fountain Inn Elementary is an elementary campus of roomy scale in Fountain Inn, South Carolina, operated by Greenville 01, instructing 1,055 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 101% above the state mean of about 526.
Across the 89 schools in Greenville 01 (78,776 students total), Fountain Inn Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, Fountain Inn Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 34% Black, 14% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 67% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, Fountain Inn Elementary has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Greenville County) shows that median household earnings sit near $76,932, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Greenville County runs 109 public schools (combined enrollment of about 89,863 students), of which Fountain Inn Elementary is one.
The closest other public school is Fountain Inn High, roughly 1.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fountain Inn Elementary.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Fountain Inn Elementary's enrollment has rose 45% since 2018, when it stood at 728 (now 1,055). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 8% to 14% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.
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