O. P. Earle Elementary

O. P. Earle Elementary is an elementary-level community of compact scale in Landrum, South Carolina, part of Spartanburg 01, enrolling 424 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Spartanburg 01, which oversees 10 schools and 5,364 students, O. P. Earle Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, O. P. Earle Elementary logs that nearly all students (86%) are White; the rest breaks down as 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Spartanburg County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, O. P. Earle Elementary has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting O. P. Earle Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, Spartanburg County reports that median household earnings sit near $66,234, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Spartanburg County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,477 students), O. P. Earle Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Landrum Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at O. P. Earle Elementary has stayed largely flat, going from 418 students in 2018 to 424 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 81% to 86% across the same window.

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