Sandhills Elementary

Sandhills Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Swansea, South Carolina, operated by Lexington 04. Current enrollment sits at 491 students spanning grades 3 through 4.

Lexington 04 runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,474 students. Sandhills Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Sandhills Elementary shows that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 19% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Lexington County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Lexington County put median household earnings sit near $77,408, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lexington County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,555 students), Sandhills Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Sandhills Primary, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Sandhills Elementary.

Sandhills Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 4%: 514 students in 2018 compared to 491 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 20% to 27% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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