Southside Early Childhood Center

At 1615 Blanding Drive in Hartsville, South Carolina, Southside Early Childhood Center operates as a small elementary school. It enrolled 360 students in pre-K through kindergarten for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 32% lower than the average for elementary schools in South Carolina, which is about 526.

Southside Early Childhood Center is part of a district of 18 schools: Darlington 01, with 8,793 students.

Black students account for 51% of enrollment at Southside Early Childhood Center. The remaining students are 34% White, 8% multiracial, and 6% Hispanic. Census figures show Darlington County is about 41% Black. The chance that two students picked at random at Southside Early Childhood Center belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 61%.

The school reports 32.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 11.2 students per teacher. For comparison, elementary schools in South Carolina average 13.3:1.

In Darlington County (population about 62,558), median household income is about $48,581, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 21 public schools operate in Darlington County, serving about 9,482 students.

Nearby, Hartsville High is about 1.0 miles away. Southside Early Childhood Center is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles.

For locale, NCES codes Southside Early Childhood Center as Town: Distant.

The student count in 2024-25 was 360, 13% above the 320 of 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 11.2 students per teacher, compared with 13.3 in 2020-21.

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