Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Dent Middle, Columbia, SC
CEP schoolDent Middle is a public middle school in Columbia, part of Richland 02 School District. It enrolled 1,059 students in 2024-25, with 12.8 students per full-time teacher.
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 1,059
- Teachers (FTE)
- 83.0
- Students per teacher
- 12.8
- Grades
- 6 to 8
This school's ratio is 1.0 lower than the district figure of 13.8. The South Carolina average across schools is 14.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
This school12.8
District13.8
South Carolina14.4
United States15.3
School details
- Address
- 2721 Decker Boulevard, Columbia, SC 29206
- Phone
- (803)699-2750
- District
- Richland 02 School District
- County
- Richland County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 450339001311
Related schools
Other middle schools in Richland 02 School District
- Kelly Mill Middle 979 students
- Blythewood Middle 872 students
- Longleaf Middle 796 students
Middle schools elsewhere in Columbia
- Irmo Middle Lexington 05 School District
- Crayton Middle Richland 01 School District
- Hand Middle Richland 01 School District
- St. Andrews Middle Richland 01 School District
- CrossRoads Intermediate Lexington 05 School District
- W. G. Sanders Middle Richland 01 School District
- Alcorn Middle Richland 01 School District
- W. A. Perry Middle Richland 01 School District
- Heyward Gibbes Middle Richland 01 School District
- Palmetto Achievement Center for Excellence Academy SC Public Charter School District
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.