Gold Hill Elementary

Gold Hill Elementary is one of the expansive K-5 schools in Tega Cay, South Carolina, operated by York 04, with 815 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 55% above the typical public school in South Carolina, which averages around 526 students.

York 04 runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 18,445 students. Gold Hill Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Gold Hill Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 33% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 10% Black, 8% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (York County) logs that median household earnings sit near $89,095, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, York County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 52,364 students), of which Gold Hill Elementary is one.

Gold Hill Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Gold Hill Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 953 (now 815). Over the same period, the White share fell from 62% to 36%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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