Pendergrass Fairwold School

Located at 5935 Token Street, in Columbia, South Carolina, Pendergrass Fairwold School is an one-room-style combined-grade school that teaches 46 students (grades K through 12), operated by Richland 01. By comparison, South Carolina's public schools average about 1,077 students each, so Pendergrass Fairwold School sits 96% leaner than that benchmark.

Richland 01 comprises 47 schools with combined enrollment of 21,814 students; Pendergrass Fairwold School is among them.

On demographics, Pendergrass Fairwold School records that 80% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 9% White, 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 47%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 3.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average.

In the area at large, Richland County reports that median household income runs about $63,784, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Pendergrass Fairwold School is one of 104 public schools in Richland County (combined enrollment of about 60,410 students).

The closest other public school is SC Whitmore School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 45%: 84 students in 2018 compared to 46 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 87% to 80% across the same window.

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