Summary
Pelion Elementary is a public elementary school serving 632 students in grades PK-5 in Pelion, South Carolina, which is part of the Lexington 01 school district.
Despite being part of a higher-performing district, Pelion Elementary has consistently ranked in the bottom half of South Carolina elementary schools, with a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger for most of the past 10 years. The school struggles across various student subgroups, with its rankings for female, male, white, low-socioeconomic, and disabled students all in the bottom half of the state, and many in the bottom quarter. Pelion Elementary also has significantly higher chronic absenteeism rates, ranging from 22.5% to 27.3% over the past few years, compared to the state and district averages. Additionally, the school's proficiency rates on the SC READY assessments for English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science are consistently lower than the Lexington 01 district and state averages, often by 10-20 percentage points.
Pelion Elementary's performance lags behind other elementary schools in the Lexington 01 district, such as Red Bank Elementary, Saxe Gotha Elementary, Deerfield Elementary, and Carolina Springs Elementary, which have higher rankings, test scores, and lower chronic absenteeism rates. The high poverty levels, chronic absenteeism, and low test scores at Pelion Elementary suggest that the school may be facing significant challenges related to socioeconomic factors, student engagement, and resource allocation that are impacting academic achievement.
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