Regular local school district · Edgefield County
Edgefield 01 School District, SC: schools, enrollment and spending
Edgefield 01 School District runs 8 public schools with 3,069 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 12.5 students per teacher is 1.9 lower than the South Carolina figure of 14.4.Listed in NCES data as "Edgefield 01".
At a glance
- Schools
- 8
- Students
- 3,069
- Teachers (FTE)
- 246
- Students per teacher
- 12.5
- SC: 14.4 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 3 Par Drive, Johnston, SC 29832
- Phone
- (803)275-4601
- County
- Edgefield County
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 4502070
- State district ID
- SC-1901
- Total staff (FTE)
- 556
- School counselors (FTE)
- 12.0About 256 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 14.0
Students per teacher compared
This district12.5
South Carolina14.4
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (3,207), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $49.8 million
- Federal revenue
- $6.0 million
- State revenue
- $25.4 million
- Local revenue
- $18.4 million
- Total spending
- $70.8 million
- Spending per pupil
- $22,088
- Salaries
- $23.6 million33.4% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $59.1 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 12.1%
- State: 51.0%
- Local: 36.9%
South Carolina overall
- Federal: 11.3%
- State: 48.0%
- Local: 40.7%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$22,088
South Carolina$15,302
United States$16,826
Schools in Edgefield 01 School District
By level: 2 high, 2 middle, 4 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Douglas Elementary | Elementary | PK to 5 | 215 | 10.2 |
| Johnston Elementary | Elementary | PK to 5 | 276 | 11.5 |
| Johnston-Edgefield-Trenton Middle | Middle | 6 to 8 | 394 | 12.3 |
| Merriwether Elementary | Elementary | PK to 5 | 760 | 14.1 |
| Merriwether Middle | Middle | 6 to 8 | 365 | 14.6 |
| Strom Thurmond Career and Technology Center | High | 9 to 12 | 0 | |
| Strom Thurmond High | High | 9 to 12 | 720 | 15.7 |
| W. E. Parker ElementaryCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 339 | 11.3 |
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.