Palmetto Achievement Center for Excellence Academy

Palmetto Achievement Center for Excellence Academy, a rural-scale intermediate school in Columbia, South Carolina, part of SC Public Charter School District, works with 216 students, covering grades 2 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 65% below the state mean of about 622.

SC Public Charter School District runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 21,383 students. Palmetto Achievement Center for Excellence Academy is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Palmetto Achievement Center for Excellence Academy reports that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 41% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 40% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Richland County put median household earnings sit near $63,784, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Richland County runs 104 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,410 students), of which Palmetto Achievement Center for Excellence Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: J. P. Thomas Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Palmetto Achievement Center for Excellence Academy.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area. Palmetto Achievement Center for Excellence Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.