Kelly Miller Elementary

Kelly Miller Elementary is an elementary school of one-room-style scale in Winnsboro, South Carolina, one of the schools within Fairfield 01, works with 199 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 62% below the state mean of about 526.

Fairfield 01 comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,103 students; Kelly Miller Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Kelly Miller Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (86%). The remainder looks like 8% White, 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Fairfield County as a whole is about 55% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Fairfield County put median household income runs about $47,885, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Kelly Miller Elementary is one of 9 public schools in Fairfield County (combined enrollment of about 2,409 students).

The closest other public school is Midlands STEM Charter School, roughly 3.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Kelly Miller Elementary.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kelly Miller Elementary has contracted 13%, going from 229 students in 2018 to 199 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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