Ware Shoals Primary

Ware Shoals Primary is a cozy elementary school in Ware Shoals, South Carolina, overseen by Greenwood 51. The school serves 385 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, South Carolina's public schools average about 526 students each, so Ware Shoals Primary sits 27% smaller than that benchmark.

Greenwood 51 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 888 students; Ware Shoals Primary is among them.

Demographically, Ware Shoals Primary shows that White students make up the majority at 72%. Other groups include 14% Black, 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. Compared to Laurens County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Ware Shoals Primary records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Laurens County put the typical household earns roughly $57,623 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Laurens County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,681 students), Ware Shoals Primary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Ware Shoals High, around 2.1 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Ware Shoals Primary operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 6%: 411 students in 2018 compared to 385 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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