Hyatt Park Elementary

Hyatt Park Elementary operates as a cozy elementary campus in Columbia, South Carolina, part of Richland 01. Current enrollment sits at 317 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 40% smaller than the state mean of about 526.

Richland 01 runs 47 schools in total, collectively educating 21,814 students. Hyatt Park Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Hyatt Park Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (88%); the rest comes out to 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% White. By comparison, Richland County as a whole is about 47% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Richland County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $63,784 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Richland County runs 104 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,410 students), of which Hyatt Park Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Eau Claire High, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hyatt Park Elementary.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 33%: 471 students in 2018 compared to 317 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 97% to 88% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Hyatt Park Elementary community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.