North Hartsville Elementary

Located at 110 School Drive, in Hartsville, South Carolina, North Hartsville Elementary is a moderately sized elementary-level community that works with 486 students (grades 1 through 5), run under Darlington 01.

Within Darlington 01, which oversees 18 schools and 8,793 students, North Hartsville Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, North Hartsville Elementary lists that White students make up the majority at 63%. The remainder breaks down as 19% Black, 12% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 54%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, North Hartsville Elementary has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting North Hartsville Elementary higher than the state norm the norm.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Darlington County indicate the typical household earns roughly $48,581 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. In all, Darlington County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,482 students), of which North Hartsville Elementary is one.

SC Governor's School for Science and Mathematics is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around North Hartsville Elementary.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 26%: 657 students in 2018 compared to 486 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 24% to 19%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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