Mossy Creek Elementary

Set in North Augusta, South Carolina, Mossy Creek Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school, one of the schools within Aiken 01. It instructs 700 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 33% above the typical public school in South Carolina, which averages around 526 students.

Aiken 01 comprises 40 schools with combined enrollment of 22,916 students; Mossy Creek Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Mossy Creek Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 32% Black, 18% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 65%.

Looking at school resources, Mossy Creek Elementary shows 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Aiken County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,609 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Aiken County runs 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,280 students), of which Mossy Creek Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: North Augusta High, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Mossy Creek Elementary's enrollment has grew 5% since 2018, when it stood at 667 (now 700). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 49% to 39%.

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