Harleyville Elementary

Harleyville Elementary is an elementary school of small scale in Dorchester, South Carolina, part of Dorchester 04, educateing 248 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 53% smaller than the state mean of about 526.

Within Dorchester 04, which oversees 7 schools and 2,566 students, Harleyville Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Harleyville Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Black (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 33% White, 7% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.2:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, Dorchester County reports that median household income runs about $78,198, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dorchester County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,832 students), of which Harleyville Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Harleyville-Ridgeville Middle, around 0.0 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Harleyville Elementary operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 14%: 290 students in 2018 compared to 248 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 56% to 51%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.