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Overbrook Child Development Center
6-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2023-24About Overbrook Child Development Center
As a moderately sized elementary campus in Greenville, South Carolina, Overbrook Child Development Center educates 532 students from grade pre-K, run under Greenville 01.
Greenville 01 runs 89 schools in total, collectively educating 78,776 students. Overbrook Child Development Center is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Overbrook Child Development Center reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 28% Black, 24% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Overbrook Child Development Center tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 90% of students at Overbrook Child Development Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Greenville County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
Across the wider county, census data for Greenville County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,932 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Overbrook Child Development Center is one of 109 public schools in Greenville County (combined enrollment of about 89,863 students).
Nearest neighbor: East North Street Academy, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Overbrook Child Development Center.
The campus sits in a city-core setting.
Over the past 6-year window. Overbrook Child Development Center's enrollment has ticked down 41% since 2018, when it stood at 909 (now 532). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 28% to 40%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 today.
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