Hopkins Middle

As a close-knit middle school in Hopkins, South Carolina, Hopkins Middle instructs 458 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Richland 01. Enrollment runs roughly 26% smaller than the state mean of about 622.

Richland 01 comprises 47 schools with combined enrollment of 21,814 students; Hopkins Middle is among them.

Looking at the student body, Hopkins Middle reports that 85% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest comes out to 5% White, 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Richland County as a whole is about 47% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Hopkins Middle reports 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average.

In the surrounding community, Richland County reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,784 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Richland County runs 104 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,410 students), of which Hopkins Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Hopkins Elementary, roughly 2.1 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Hopkins Middle operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Hopkins Middle's enrollment has fell 4% since 2018, when it stood at 478 (now 458). Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 89% to 85%.

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