Greenwood Elementary

Greenwood Elementary operates as a medium-sized elementary campus in Florence, South Carolina, one of the schools within Florence 01. Current enrollment sits at 530 students spanning grades K through 5.

Florence 01 runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 15,861 students. Greenwood Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Greenwood Elementary records that the largest single group is Black, at 64% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 23% White, 9% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Florence County put the typical household earns roughly $58,305 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Greenwood Elementary is one of 39 public schools in Florence County (combined enrollment of about 21,641 students).

McLaurin Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Greenwood Elementary.

Greenwood Elementary operates from an urban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Greenwood Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 29% since 2018, when it stood at 750 (now 530). Over the same period, the White share declined from 38% to 23%. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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