McLaurin Elementary

Federal records list McLaurin Elementary as an elementary school in Florence, South Carolina. Its grade span covers pre-K through 2, with 552 students on the rolls.

Florence 01 is responsible for 23 schools, McLaurin Elementary included, with 15,861 students in all.

Of every 100 students at McLaurin Elementary, about 49 are Black, the largest group. Smaller groups are 33% White, 10% multiracial, and 7% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 63, compared with 70 nationally.

A staff of 40 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 13.8:1. The average for elementary schools in South Carolina is about 13.3:1.

In Florence County, the median household earns about $58,305 a year, about 24% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. Florence County has 39 public schools with about 21,641 students, including McLaurin Elementary.

A public school about 2.1 miles away, Briggs Elementary, is the closest to McLaurin Elementary. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8.

McLaurin Elementary is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels City: Small.

Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 35%, from 847 to 552.

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