Springfield Elementary

Located at 2130 Pinehurst Avenue, in Charleston, South Carolina, Springfield Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school that teaches 679 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Charleston 01. By comparison, South Carolina's public schools average about 526 students each, so Springfield Elementary sits 29% bigger than that benchmark.

Charleston 01 runs 81 schools in total, collectively educating 52,009 students. Springfield Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Springfield Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Black (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 34% White, 18% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 23% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

Across the wider county, Charleston County reports that median household earnings sit near $88,494, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Charleston County runs 98 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,933 students), of which Springfield Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Montessori Community School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Springfield Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Springfield Elementary's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 682 (now 679). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 50% to 36%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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