Red Cedar Elementary

Set in Bluffton, South Carolina, Red Cedar Elementary is a mid-tier elementary campus, part of Beaufort 01. It instructs 636 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 21% above the state mean of about 526.

Beaufort 01 runs 32 schools in total, collectively educating 21,050 students. Red Cedar Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Red Cedar Elementary shows that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 42% White, 9% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Beaufort County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Beaufort County) logs that median household earnings sit near $86,573, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Beaufort County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,968 students), of which Red Cedar Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Bluffton Middle, roughly 0.6 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Red Cedar Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Red Cedar Elementary has fell 5%, going from 671 students in 2018 to 636 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 32% to 42% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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