Liberty STEAM Charter School

Liberty STEAM Charter School is a moderately sized K-5 school in Sumter, South Carolina, overseen by SC Public Charter School District. The school works with 730 students in grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 39% larger than the state mean of about 526.

SC Public Charter School District runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 21,383 students. Liberty STEAM Charter School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Liberty STEAM Charter School reports that the most-represented group is Black (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 38% White, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Sumter County shows median household earnings sit near $56,693, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Liberty STEAM Charter School is one of 27 public schools in Sumter County (combined enrollment of about 14,608 students).

Willow Drive Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. Liberty STEAM Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

On this page, members of the Liberty STEAM Charter School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.