Willie Jeffries School of Excellence

As a cozy elementary campus in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Willie Jeffries School of Excellence hosts 274 students from grades K through 6, one of the schools within Charter Institute at Erskine. Enrollment runs roughly 48% below the state mean of about 526.

Charter Institute at Erskine runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 28,041 students. Willie Jeffries School of Excellence is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Willie Jeffries School of Excellence records that nearly all students (89%) are Black. Other groups include 5% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Orangeburg County as a whole is about 61% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average.

In the surrounding community, census data for Orangeburg County shows median household earnings sit near $45,675, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Orangeburg County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,507 students), Willie Jeffries School of Excellence is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Bethune-Bowman Elementary, roughly 3.8 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an outlying setting. As a public charter, Willie Jeffries School of Excellence runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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