Gray Collegiate Academy

As a medium-sized four-year high school in West Columbia, South Carolina, Gray Collegiate Academy hosts 935 students from grades 6 through 12, one of the schools within Charter Institute at Erskine.

Charter Institute at Erskine comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 28,041 students; Gray Collegiate Academy is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Gray Collegiate Academy records that White students make up the majority at 71%. Other groups include 16% Black, 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average.

In the area at large, census data for Lexington County shows median household income runs about $77,408, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Lexington County runs 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,555 students), of which Gray Collegiate Academy is one.

Meadow Glen Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a residential setting. As a public charter, Gray Collegiate Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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