Largest Schools in South Carolina
South Carolina has 1,215 public schools across 82 districts with a total enrollment of 789,231 students. The largest school is SC Connections Academy in Columbia.
Largest Schools in South Carolina
| # | School | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC Connections Academy | Columbia | 6,263 |
| 2 | Cyber Academy of South Carolina | Greenville | 3,985 |
| 3 | Dorman High | Roebuck | 3,808 |
| 4 | Summerville High | Summerville | 3,308 |
| 5 | Carolina Forest High | Myrtle Beach | 3,059 |
| 6 | South Carolina Virtual Charter School | West Columbia | 2,912 |
| 7 | Clover High | Clover | 2,685 |
| 8 | Boiling Springs High | Boiling Springs | 2,671 |
| 9 | Stratford High | Goose Creek | 2,653 |
| 10 | Wando High | Mount Pleasant | 2,596 |
Largest Districts in South Carolina
| # | District | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greenville 01 | 77,978 |
| 2 | Charleston 01 | 49,929 |
| 3 | Horry 01 | 47,357 |
| 4 | Berkeley 01 | 37,932 |
| 5 | Richland 02 | 28,510 |
| 6 | Lexington 01 | 28,031 |
| 7 | Dorchester 02 | 26,135 |
| 8 | Aiken 01 | 23,181 |
| 9 | Charter Institute at Erskine | 22,535 |
| 10 | Richland 01 | 22,037 |
School data for South Carolina is sourced from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results.
Frequently Asked Questions
The largest public school in South Carolina by enrollment is SC Connections Academy in Columbia with 6,263 students.
South Carolina has 1,215 public schools across 82 school districts, with a total enrollment of 789,231 students.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. This includes enrollment, student-teacher ratios, proficiency rates, and graduation rates.
School data includes enrollment, student-teacher ratios, proficiency rates, and graduation rates from NCES and EDFacts.
The this entity category groups every U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment entity sharing this attribute. The list above is the data; the paragraphs below explain what the grouping means against the broader NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts distribution and how to read the relative rankings within the category.
For readers using this category as a starting point, the per-entity detail pages linked from the table above carry the underlying NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts data in full. The category-level view is the filter; the per-entity pages are the actual answer.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.