Carolina Forest Elementary
Myrtle Beach, SC · Elementary School · Grades -1-5
Carolina Forest Elementary is a elementary school in Myrtle Beach, SC with 1,246 students enrolled and a 36% proficiency rate. Part of Horry 01. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Carolina Forest Elementary is a elementary school located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The school serves 1,246 students in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.4:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 36% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
68% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating the school serves a predominantly low-income community.
Carolina Forest Elementary is part of the Horry 01 in South Carolina. The school receives Title I federal funding.
How This School Compares
Carolina Forest Elementary has 1,246 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Horry 01 (861 students). Its 36% proficiency rate is 5 percentage points below the district average of 41%. Compared to the South Carolina state average of 40%, the school performs 4 points lower.
Frequently Asked Questions
Carolina Forest Elementary has 1,246 students enrolled in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.4:1.
According to EDFacts data, 36% of students at Carolina Forest Elementary meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Carolina Forest Elementary is part of the Horry 01 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.