The Palmetto School

The Palmetto School is an elementary school located in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in York County. It had 63 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 8. That compares with an average of about 526 students for elementary schools in South Carolina.

The Palmetto School is in York 03, a district with 16,034 students across 24 schools.

About 57% of the student body at The Palmetto School is Black. Smaller groups are 29% White, 10% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. County-wide, 18% of York County residents are Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 58%.

A staff of 7.5 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 8.4:1. Compared with the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in South Carolina, this school's ratio is lower.

York County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $89,095, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. York County's 69 public schools enroll about 52,364 students and include The Palmetto School.

Of the public schools around it, The Palmetto School is closest to Central Child Development Center, less than a tenth of a mile away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

The school's federal locale classification is City: Small. This is a charter school, which is a tuition-free public school operating under a charter.

The Palmetto School had 35 students in 2020-21 and 63 in 2024-25, according to federal records. Those counts may cover different grade spans. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 11.7:1 to 8.4:1.

This page is set up for the Palmetto School community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.