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Ballentine Elementary Primary School

Basic InfoStudents and TeachersTest PerformanceTeacher's ExperienceSchool District

1040 Bickley Rd

Irmo SC, 29063, Richland County

Phone: 803-476-4500

Ranking:

(17 out of 841, top 2%)*

Type: Regular Primary School

Status: Currently Operational

Grade: Kindergarten to Grade 5

School District: Lexington School District 5

Title I Eligible School: No

Magnet: NA

Charter: NA

Shared-Time School: NA

Students and Teachers

	2013-2014		2012-2013		2011-2012		2010-2011		2009-2010		2008-2009		2007-2008
	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%
Total Teachers:	47		47		49		49		52		46		52
Total Students:	715		717		750		744		755		778		714
Kindergarten:	95	13.3%	103	14.4%	111	14.8%	119	16.0%	103	13.6%	128	16.5%	110	15.4%
Grade 1:	108	15.1%	122	17.0%	119	15.9%	110	14.8%	132	17.5%	114	14.7%	136	19.0%
Grade 2:	131	18.3%	120	16.7%	114	15.2%	128	17.2%	113	15.0%	144	18.5%	112	15.7%
Grade 3:	127	17.8%	116	16.2%	130	17.3%	117	15.7%	144	19.1%	122	15.7%	114	16.0%
Grade 4:	121	16.9%	134	18.7%	124	16.5%	150	20.2%	123	16.3%	127	16.3%	134	18.8%
Grade 5:	133	18.6%	122	17.0%	152	20.3%	120	16.1%	125	16.6%	137	17.6%	102	14.3%
Ungraded:	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Student By Gender:
Male:	384	53.7%	382	53.3%	409	54.5%	405	54.4%	397	52.6%	391	50.3%	358	50.1%
Female:	331	46.3%	335	46.7%	341	45.5%	339	45.6%	344	45.6%	372	47.8%	346	48.5%
Student By Races:
American Indian/Alaska Native:	1	0.1%	1	0.1%	2	0.3%	2	0.3%	3	0.4%	2	0.3%	3	0.4%
Asian:	18	2.5%	20	2.8%	25	3.3%	24	3.2%	24	3.2%	24	3.1%	20	2.8%
Hispanic:	12	1.7%	15	2.1%	13	1.7%	16	2.2%	6	0.8%	6	0.8%	6	0.8%
Black:	74	10.3%	72	10.0%	86	11.5%	75	10.1%	82	10.9%	107	13.8%	98	13.7%
White:	588	82.2%	590	82.3%	607	80.9%	611	82.1%	634	84.0%	632	81.2%	581	81.4%
Hawaiian Native/Pacific Islander:	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Two or More Races:	22	3.1%	19	2.6%	17	2.3%	16	2.2%	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Lunch Program:
Free Lunch Program Eligible:	72	10.1%	55	7.7%	53	7.1%	34	4.6%	56	7.4%	47	6.0%	31	4.3%
Reduced-Price Lunch Program Eligible:	19	2.7%	18	2.5%	23	3.1%	17	2.3%	12	1.6%	25	3.2%	16	2.2%
Student-Teacher Ratio:	15.28		15.13		15.31		15.31		14.63		16.90		13.70

Test Performance

Year	Test	Grade	Measurement	Score	School District	State Average
PASS
2003	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	96.5%	92.4%	81.8%
2004	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	97.3%	93.3%	85.8%
2005	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	94.7%	91.6%	87.1%
2006	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	99.2%	92.6%	86.4%
2007	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	94.3%	90.1%	85.8%
2008	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	97.4%	90.4%	86.7%
2009	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	94.4%	85.6%	78%
2010	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	96.5%	88.4%	80.7%
2011	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	97.3%	87.4%	80%
2012	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	95.6%	86.3%	80.3%
2013	English/Language Arts	3rd Grade	% met std	96.6%	88.7%	82.8%
2003	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	98.8%	93%	82.3%
2004	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	95.5%	90.6%	82.7%
2005	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	95.4%	89.4%	83.4%
2006	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	97.7%	90.9%	80.9%
2007	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	95.9%	87.4%	78.4%
2008	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	94.8%	85.2%	77.1%
2009	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	87.2%	81.2%	67%
2010	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	90.8%	82.3%	70%
2011	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	93.9%	80.1%	70.4%
2012	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	91.2%	82.3%	72.5%
2013	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	93.2%	80.9%	69.7%
2003	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	86.4%	80.6%	56.2%
2004	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	91.8%	82.5%	60%
2005	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	87.8%	79.2%	64.4%
2006	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	93.1%	79.6%	62.7%
2007	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	83.9%	77.3%	64.5%
2008	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	94.8%	83.1%	71.1%
2009	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	91.9%	77.7%	61.5%
2010	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	80.3%	69.4%	55.7%
2011	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	88%	75.5%	60.8%
2012	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	89.9%	77.3%	60.7%
2013	Science	3rd Grade	% met std	88.1%	81.3%	67.8%
2003	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	86.4%	82.8%	61%
2004	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	97.3%	88.8%	72.1%
2005	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	96.2%	92.9%	79.4%
2006	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	98.5%	90.9%	79.4%
2007	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	98.4%	91%	84.7%
2008	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	94.7%	92%	83.8%
2009	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	92.1%	89.1%	74.4%
2010	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	98.6%	87.6%	73.2%
2011	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	100%	87.6%	76.6%
2012	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	86.6%	83.5%	74.6%
2013	Social Studies	3rd Grade	% met std	91.5%	87.9%	79.7%
2009	Writing	3rd Grade	% met std	91.9%	77.2%	68.9%
2010	Writing	3rd Grade	% met std	90%	76.5%	71%
2013	Writing	3rd Grade	% met std	90.6%	78.1%	70.3%
2003	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	93%	88.2%	76.4%
2004	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	97.9%	89.8%	80.7%
2005	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	96.6%	87.8%	79.6%
2006	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	96.5%	88.7%	81.8%
2007	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	98%	88.5%	82.7%
2008	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	93.3%	86.8%	80.8%
2009	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	95.9%	82.8%	75.7%
2010	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	91.8%	85.2%	76.5%
2011	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	95.3%	84.1%	78%
2012	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	95.1%	84.6%	78.2%
2013	English/Language Arts	4th Grade	% met std	94.1%	86.2%	78.9%
2003	Math	4th Grade	% met std	94.7%	91.8%	81.1%
2004	Math	4th Grade	% met std	96.8%	89.3%	80.3%
2005	Math	4th Grade	% met std	100%	88.5%	78.6%
2006	Math	4th Grade	% met std	97.9%	86.9%	78.4%
2007	Math	4th Grade	% met std	99%	88%	78.1%
2008	Math	4th Grade	% met std	96.3%	87%	79%
2009	Math	4th Grade	% met std	98.3%	85.8%	76.8%
2010	Math	4th Grade	% met std	94.3%	86.8%	76.7%
2011	Math	4th Grade	% met std	97.3%	87.8%	79.4%
2012	Math	4th Grade	% met std	95.2%	87.1%	78.4%
2013	Math	4th Grade	% met std	93.4%	87.3%	79.8%
2003	Science	4th Grade	% met std	91.2%	79.2%	57.1%
2004	Science	4th Grade	% met std	92.9%	82.8%	62.3%
2005	Science	4th Grade	% met std	94%	80.3%	61.8%
2006	Science	4th Grade	% met std	91.7%	77.9%	62.8%
2007	Science	4th Grade	% met std	99%	79.5%	63.8%
2008	Science	4th Grade	% met std	95.6%	82.6%	68.9%
2009	Science	4th Grade	% met std	87.7%	80.8%	68.7%
2010	Science	4th Grade	% met std	93.5%	82.4%	69.2%
2011	Science	4th Grade	% met std	95.9%	83.1%	70.8%
2012	Science	4th Grade	% met std	96%	82.9%	73.8%
2013	Science	4th Grade	% met std	91.1%	83.6%	73.2%
2003	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	88.6%	83.5%	64.7%
2004	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	92.9%	86.3%	71%
2005	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	98.3%	87.9%	77.2%
2006	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	91.7%	83.8%	72.4%
2007	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	98%	83.3%	73.7%
2008	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	96.3%	87.2%	76.4%
2009	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	95.9%	89%	79.8%
2010	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	94.3%	86.4%	76.1%
2011	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	96.7%	86.5%	77%
2012	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	99.2%	89.3%	80.9%
2013	Social Studies	4th Grade	% met std	94.1%	89.1%	81.8%
2009	Writing	4th Grade	% met std	90.9%	79.2%	70.1%
2010	Writing	4th Grade	% met std	91.8%	78.4%	72.2%
2013	Writing	4th Grade	% met std	91.1%	82.5%	74.3%
2003	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	88%	81.5%	68.2%
2004	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	93.3%	88.8%	76.6%
2005	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	94.6%	88.2%	76.8%
2006	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	98.4%	88.8%	79.8%
2007	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	90.7%	86.3%	77.2%
2008	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	91.3%	84.6%	77.6%
2009	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	95.6%	86.5%	80%
2010	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	94.2%	86%	78.1%
2011	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	88.8%	85%	78.3%
2012	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	94.2%	85.2%	76.5%
2013	English/Language Arts	5th Grade	% met std	95.2%	87.6%	81.9%
2003	Math	5th Grade	% met std	92%	86.2%	74.6%
2004	Math	5th Grade	% met std	95%	89.9%	76.2%
2005	Math	5th Grade	% met std	96.4%	89.6%	77.2%
2006	Math	5th Grade	% met std	98.4%	85.6%	75.9%
2007	Math	5th Grade	% met std	95.8%	88.3%	77.7%
2008	Math	5th Grade	% met std	97.1%	85.2%	77.9%
2009	Math	5th Grade	% met std	95.6%	81.2%	73.5%
2010	Math	5th Grade	% met std	90.2%	80.6%	71.3%
2011	Math	5th Grade	% met std	93.2%	84.8%	75.3%
2012	Math	5th Grade	% met std	94.1%	83.9%	76.1%
2013	Math	5th Grade	% met std	94.5%	83.5%	76.2%
2003	Science	5th Grade	% met std	90.7%	79.4%	58.2%
2004	Science	5th Grade	% met std	92.6%	83%	60.3%
2005	Science	5th Grade	% met std	86.8%	77.4%	56.7%
2006	Science	5th Grade	% met std	92.6%	75.8%	59.5%
2007	Science	5th Grade	% met std	82.8%	73.2%	60.6%
2008	Science	5th Grade	% met std	94.2%	76.6%	61.4%
2009	Science	5th Grade	% met std	94.1%	81.9%	68.3%
2010	Science	5th Grade	% met std	96.8%	79.1%	66%
2011	Science	5th Grade	% met std	88.2%	76.2%	65%
2012	Science	5th Grade	% met std	88.4%	82.3%	71.7%
2013	Science	5th Grade	% met std	95.3%	82.7%	73%
2003	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	80%	78.3%	60.4%
2004	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	86.9%	82.6%	63.5%
2005	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	91.2%	82.9%	63.9%
2006	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	96.7%	80%	62.4%
2007	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	93.3%	78%	63.8%
2008	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	98%	80%	66.3%
2009	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	97.1%	81.8%	70%
2010	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	88.3%	80.1%	66.1%
2011	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	93.1%	81.1%	70.4%
2012	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	94.7%	82%	69.9%
2013	Social Studies	5th Grade	% met std	98.5%	84.9%	71.7%
2009	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	90.4%	78.7%	73.2%
2010	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	93.4%	79.5%	74.5%
2011	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	94.1%	85.3%	77.7%
2012	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	89.7%	78.6%	73.6%
2013	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	87.2%	78.9%	74.5%

Some data by SchoolDigger.com.

Teacher's Experience and Compensation

	2007
Teachers with Bachelor Degree:	24.4%
Teachers with Master or PhD Degree:	75.6%

Mean Number of Years of Teaching:	15.0 years
Teachers with 5 Years of Experience of Less:	8.9%
Teachers with 6 Years of Experience or More:	91.1%

Mean Base Salary:	$50,328.0
Mean Base Salary of Teachers with 5 Years of Experience of Less:	$35,000.0
Mean Base Salary of Teachers with 6 Years of Experience or More:	$51,824.0

* Ballentine Elementary Primary School was rated 5 out of 5 by USA.com. The ranking was calculated based on publically available historical Math and English performance data.