Kelly Edwards Elementary

Located at 1071 Elko Street, in Williston, South Carolina, Kelly Edwards Elementary is a tight-knit K-5 school that works with 296 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Barnwell. That puts it 44% below the typical public school in South Carolina, which averages around 526 students.

Barnwell runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 3,123 students. Kelly Edwards Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Kelly Edwards Elementary logs that Black students make up the majority at 64%. Other groups include 23% White, 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Barnwell County as a whole is about 43% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Kelly Edwards Elementary has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. That tracks the state average closely.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Barnwell County indicate the typical household earns roughly $46,626 per year, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 20%. In all, Barnwell County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,300 students), of which Kelly Edwards Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Kelly Edwards Elementary, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

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