Middle · South Carolina
Buford Middle
Buford Middle, a public middle school in Lancaster, South Carolina: grades 6–8, 374 students, 12.9 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Lancaster 01.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 374
- Teachers (FTE)
- 29.0
- Students per teacher
- 12.9
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 65% of middle schools in South Carolina
Median 13.8 · 250 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 67% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Smaller than 78% of middle schools in South Carolina
Median 622 · 250 schools compared
Smaller than 67% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on South Carolina's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
South Carolina: 60%55%proficient
New test or proficiency bar this year: not comparable with the year before.
A higher share proficient than 53% of middle schools in South Carolina
Median 54% · 250 middle schools compared
367 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · SC Ready; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
South Carolina: 44%47%proficient
−1.5 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 78% of middle schools in South Carolina
Median 30% · 250 middle schools compared
368 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · SC Ready; proficient means Levels 3-4
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Area
- Distant rural area
- Run by
- Lancaster 01
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Lancaster 01.
Location
- Address
- 1890 North Rocky River Road, Lancaster, SC 29720
- Phone
- (803)285-8473
- City or town
- Buford
- County
- Lancaster County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
A. R. Rucker MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 477 | 12.8 |
South MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 439 | 11.5 |
| 6–8 | 879 | 20.1 | |
| 6–8 | 480 | 14.9 | |
New Heights MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 457 | 16.3 |
| 6–8 | 802 | 17.6 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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