Meeting Street Academy-Spartanburg

Meeting Street Academy-Spartanburg is a tight-knit primary school in Spartanburg, South Carolina, overseen by Spartanburg 07. The school caters to 369 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, South Carolina's public schools average about 526 students each, so Meeting Street Academy-Spartanburg sits 30% leaner than that benchmark.

Spartanburg 07 comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 7,624 students; Meeting Street Academy-Spartanburg is among them.

On demographics, Meeting Street Academy-Spartanburg reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (84%). Other groups include 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Meeting Street Academy-Spartanburg qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Spartanburg County (around 69%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Spartanburg County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,234 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Spartanburg County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,477 students), of which Meeting Street Academy-Spartanburg is one.

Nearest neighbor: Meeting Street Academy-Spartanburg, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Meeting Street Academy-Spartanburg.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 6-year window. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at Meeting Street Academy-Spartanburg has ticked up 82%, going from 203 students in 2018 to 369 in 2024.

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