Middle · South Carolina
W. G. Sanders Middle
Free meals for allW. G. Sanders Middle, a public middle school in Columbia, South Carolina: grades 6–8, 503 students, 9.3 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Richland 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
- 503
- Teachers (FTE)
- 54.0
- Students per teacher
- 9.3
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 96% of middle schools in South Carolina
Median 13.8 · 250 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 94% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Smaller than 61% of middle schools in South Carolina
Median 622 · 250 schools compared
Smaller than 52% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize city
- Run by
- Richland 01
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Richland 01.
Location
- Address
- 3455 Pine Belt Road, Columbia, SC 29204
- Phone
- (803)735-7575
- City or town
- Columbia
- County
- Richland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
W. A. Perry MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 320 | 10.0 |
Crayton MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 952 | 14.0 |
| 2–8 | 216 | 9.4 | |
Alcorn MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 381 | 12.5 |
Dent MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 1,059 | 12.8 |
Hand MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 755 | 12.4 |
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.
NCES 450336001299