Spring Valley High

Spring Valley High operates as a high-enrollment high school in Columbia, South Carolina. The school enrolls 2,230 students, from grades 9 through 12. An average school in this group (high schools in South Carolina) has about 953 students.

The district, Richland 02, has 28,841 students enrolled across 32 schools.

Black students make up a majority at Spring Valley High, at 54%. Other students are 19% White, 15% Hispanic, 7% Asian, and 5% multiracial. The school's diversity index is 64%, meaning two students picked at random have a 64% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

The school has about 17.8 students per teacher and 125.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 2.4 above the 15.5:1 average for high schools in South Carolina.

Richland County has these Census figures: the median household income is $63,784, about 41% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. In all, Richland County has 104 public schools and roughly 60,410 students.

The school nearest to Spring Valley High is L. B. Nelson Elementary, at a distance of about 0.9 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8.

NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Compared with 2020-21, the school had 137 more students in 2024-25.

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