St. Andrews Middle

St. Andrews Middle operates as a moderately sized 6-8 campus in Columbia, South Carolina, operated by Richland 01. Current enrollment sits at 627 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Within Richland 01, which oversees 47 schools and 21,814 students, St. Andrews Middle is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, St. Andrews Middle lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (83%); the rest comes out to 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 47%.

On the resource side, On paper, St. Andrews Middle has 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting St. Andrews Middle tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the surrounding community, census data for Richland County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,784 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Richland County runs 104 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,410 students), of which St. Andrews Middle is one.

H. B. Rhame Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at St. Andrews Middle has fell 8%, going from 682 students in 2018 to 627 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 2% to 7% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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