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Nearly Half of SC Districts Hit Record Lows
Richland 01 enrolled 21,468 students this year. That is fewer than any year since at least 2014-15, a loss of 3,088 from its 12-year peak. It is not alone. Thirty-eight of South Carolina's 81 school d...
One in Seven SC Students Is Now Hispanic
In Saluda, a small town west of Columbia where the school district has added 436 students over the past decade, nearly half the 2,600 enrolled children are Hispanic or Latino. Six bilingual graduates ...
White Students Fell Below 50% Seven Years Ago. The Gap Keeps Widening.
In 2019, for the first time in the state's history, white students dropped below half of South Carolina's public school enrollment. That crossing was not a one-year anomaly. It was a hinge. In the sev...