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Public Schools in South Carolina

1,215 schools · 82 districts · 789,231 students

40%
Average
Avg Proficiency
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Largest Schools in South Carolina

School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.

SC Connections Academy

Columbia

6,263 students

Cyber Academy of South Carolina

Greenville

3,985 students

Dorman High

Roebuck

3,808 students

Summerville High

Summerville

3,308 students

Carolina Forest High

Myrtle Beach

3,059 students

South Carolina Virtual Charter School

West Columbia

2,912 students

Clover High

Clover

2,685 students

Boiling Springs High

Boiling Springs

2,671 students

Stratford High

Goose Creek

2,653 students

Wando High

Mount Pleasant

2,596 students

Frequently Asked Questions

South Carolina has 1,215 public schools across 82 districts, serving 789,231 students.

The largest school in South Carolina is SC Connections Academy with 6,263 students. South Carolina has 1,215 public schools overall.

The average proficiency rate is 40%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.

All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.

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School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.

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.