Lower Richland High

Lower Richland High is a mid-sized high school in Hopkins, South Carolina. It reported 1,218 students in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 953 students for high schools in South Carolina.

Richland 01 enrolls 21,814 students, and its 47 schools include Lower Richland High.

A large majority of enrollment at Lower Richland High is Black, at 81%. The school is also 7% Hispanic, 6% White, and 5% multiracial. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 47%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Lower Richland High scores 33%.

The school's 90 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.5:1. High schools in South Carolina average 15.5:1, 1.9 more students per teacher than here.

In the surrounding county, Richland County, median household income comes to about $63,784, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 41% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 12%. The county has 104 public schools and about 60,410 students.

Southeast Middle, about 1.7 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number 7.

The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).

Enrollment in 2024-25 was 1,218, close to the 1,200 recorded in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 15.2:1; by 2024-25 it was 13.5:1.

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