Great Falls High

Great Falls High operates as a micro-enrollment 9-12 campus in Great Falls, South Carolina, one of the schools within Chester 01. Current enrollment sits at 375 students spanning grades 6 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 953 students per school, that is 61% smaller than typical.

Great Falls High is one of 11 schools operated by Chester 01, a district that works with 4,523 students overall.

Demographically, Great Falls High records that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 40% Black, 10% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Chester County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Great Falls High tighter than the state norm the norm.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Chester County) logs that median household income runs about $52,458, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Great Falls High is one of 12 public schools in Chester County (combined enrollment of about 4,523 students).

Great Falls Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 368 students in 2018 compared to 375 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 60% to 41%.

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