Herbert A. Wood Elementary

Herbert A. Wood Elementary is a sizable K-5 school in West Columbia, South Carolina, part of Lexington 02. The school hosts 938 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, South Carolina's public schools average about 526 students each, so Herbert A. Wood Elementary sits 78% larger than that benchmark.

Herbert A. Wood Elementary is one of 12 schools operated by Lexington 02, a district that educates 8,465 students overall.

Demographically, Herbert A. Wood Elementary logs that the largest single group is Black at 36%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 31% White, 28% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Lexington County) records that median household income runs about $77,408, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Herbert A. Wood Elementary is one of 76 public schools in Lexington County (combined enrollment of about 64,555 students).

Nearest neighbor: Pine Ridge Middle, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Herbert A. Wood Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Herbert A. Wood Elementary has rose 90%, going from 493 students in 2018 to 938 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 48% to 31%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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