Heartwood Community School

As a rural-scale K-5 school in Ridegland, South Carolina, Heartwood Community School serves 87 students from grades K through 2, run under SC Public Charter School District. Compared to the state average of about 526 students per school, that is 83% below typical.

Heartwood Community School is one of 43 schools operated by SC Public Charter School District, a district that serves 21,383 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Heartwood Community School lists that 47% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 23% White, 20% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

Looking at school resources, Heartwood Community School shows 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 5.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Heartwood Community School tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Jasper County) records that median household earnings sit near $65,613, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jasper County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,194 students), Heartwood Community School is one campus in the mix.

Okatie Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies an outlying site. Heartwood Community School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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