Williston-Elko Middle

Set in Williston, South Carolina, Williston-Elko Middle is a micro-enrollment junior high, overseen by Barnwell. It works with 149 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, South Carolina's public schools average about 622 students each, so Williston-Elko Middle sits 76% below that benchmark.

Barnwell comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,123 students; Williston-Elko Middle is among them.

On the student-mix side, Williston-Elko Middle lists that Black students make up the majority at 64%. The remainder reads as 28% White, 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Williston-Elko Middle has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.9:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Barnwell County indicate the typical household earns roughly $46,626 per year, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 20%. Williston-Elko Middle is one of 16 public schools in Barnwell County (combined enrollment of about 4,300 students).

Nearest neighbor: Williston-Elko Middle, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

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