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A 2017 Reclassification Cut South Carolina's Native American Student Count in Half, on Paper
South Carolina's public schools enrolled 4,450 students who are Native American in the 2015-16 school year. By 2025-26, that number had fallen to 2,244, a loss of 49.6%. No other racial group in the s...
Shaw Air Force Base Can't Save Sumter's Schools
Shaw Air Force Base pumps $2.05 billion a year into the Sumter region. It supports 9,404 direct jobs and another 5,466 indirect ones. More than 31,000 active-duty personnel, military families, and ret...
Nearly Half of SC Districts Hit Record Lows
Richland 01 enrolled 21,468 students in 2025-26. 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-four of South Carolina's 81 school d...
Three Schools Posted Three of South Carolina's Four Largest One-Year Attendance Drops
Three South Carolina schools posted three of the state's four largest one-year declines in chronic absenteeism in 2024-25. Morningside Middle ranked second, Baptist Hill Middle High ranked third and B...
One in Seven SC Students Is Now Hispanic
In Saluda, a small town west of Columbia where the school district has added 242 students over the past decade, nearly half the 2,600 enrolled children are Hispanic or Latino. Six bilingual graduates ...
South Carolina's Growing Schools Have Had No Racial Majority Since 2019-20
Correction (September 30, 2026): An earlier version of this article said white students first fell below half of South Carolina's enrollment in 2018-19. The state's statewide totals put the white shar...