W. A. Perry Middle

W. A. Perry Middle operates as a cozy middle school in Columbia, South Carolina, part of Richland 01. Current enrollment sits at 320 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 49% smaller than the state mean of about 622.

Richland 01 comprises 47 schools with combined enrollment of 21,814 students; W. A. Perry Middle is among them.

Looking at the student body, W. A. Perry Middle lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%). Other groups include 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Richland County as a whole is about 47% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Richland County put the typical household earns roughly $63,784 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. W. A. Perry Middle is one of 104 public schools in Richland County (combined enrollment of about 60,410 students).

The closest other public school is Watkins-Nance Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around W. A. Perry Middle.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 13%: 369 students in 2018 compared to 320 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 96% to 90%.

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