SC Connections Academy
Columbia, SC · High School
SC Connections Academy is a high school in Columbia, SC with 6,263 students enrolled and a 41% proficiency rate. Part of Charter Institute at Erskine. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
SC Connections Academy is a high school (charter) located in Columbia, South Carolina. The school serves 6,263 students. The student-to-teacher ratio is 28.3:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 41% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 72% graduation rate.
50% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
SC Connections Academy is part of the Charter Institute at Erskine in South Carolina. The school receives Title I federal funding.
How This School Compares
SC Connections Academy has 6,263 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Charter Institute at Erskine (939 students). Its 41% proficiency rate is 7 percentage points below the district average of 47%. Compared to the South Carolina state average of 40%, the school performs 1 points higher. The 28.3:1 student-teacher ratio is above the national average of 16:1.
Frequently Asked Questions
SC Connections Academy has 6,263 students enrolled. The student-to-teacher ratio is 28.3:1.
According to EDFacts data, 41% of students at SC Connections Academy meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
SC Connections Academy has a 72% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
SC Connections Academy is part of the Charter Institute at Erskine in Columbia, 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.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.