Rosewood Elementary

Located at 3300 Rosewood Drive, in Columbia, South Carolina, Rosewood Elementary is a small K-5 school that works with 338 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Richland 01. Compared to the state average of about 526 students per school, that is 36% smaller than typical.

Richland 01 runs 47 schools in total, collectively educating 21,814 students. Rosewood Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Rosewood Elementary records that 62% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 24% Black, 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 40%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely.

In the surrounding community, Richland County reports that median household income runs about $63,784, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Rosewood Elementary is one of 104 public schools in Richland County (combined enrollment of about 60,410 students).

Hand Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rosewood Elementary.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 14%: 391 students in 2018 compared to 338 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 71% to 62% across the same window.

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