Elementary · South Carolina
Limestone-Central Elementary
Free meals for allLimestone-Central Elementary, a public elementary school in Gaffney, South Carolina: grades pre-k–5, 436 students, 13.3 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Cherokee 01.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary 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
- 436
- Teachers (FTE)
- 32.8
- Students per teacher
- 13.3
- Grades
- Pre-K–5
- Elementary
Fewer students per teacher than 51% of elementary schools in South Carolina
Median 13.4 · 691 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 64% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Smaller than 61% of elementary schools in South Carolina
Median 505 · 691 schools compared
Larger than 54% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades Pre-K–5
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Rural area near a city
- Run by
- Cherokee 01
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Cherokee 01.
Location
- Address
- 727 Pacolet Highway, Gaffney, SC 29341
- Phone
- (864)206-6620
- County
- Cherokee County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
B. D. Lee ElementaryFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 603 | 15.2 |
| Pre-K–5 | 292 | 12.7 | |
Luther L. Vaughan ElementaryFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 399 | 11.9 |
Goucher Charter AcademyCharter | Pre-K–8 | 244 | 10.2 |
Draytonville ElementaryFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 264 | 13.9 |
| Pre-K–5 | 519 | 15.5 |
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).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
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