Nursery Road Elementary

Set in Columbia, South Carolina, Nursery Road Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary-level community, one of the schools within Lexington 05. It hosts 471 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within Lexington 05, which oversees 22 schools and 17,053 students, Nursery Road Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Nursery Road Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Black (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 34% White, 11% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 15% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.7:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Lexington County) records that the typical household earns roughly $77,408 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Nursery Road Elementary is one of 76 public schools in Lexington County (combined enrollment of about 64,555 students).

Irmo Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Nursery Road Elementary.

Nursery Road Elementary operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 462 students in 2018 compared to 471 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 45% to 34% across the same window.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.