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Multiracial Students Are Now SC's Fourth-Largest Racial Group
Correction (May 14, 2026): An earlier version stated Berkeley 01 had the highest multiracial share among districts with at least 1,000 students, followed by Dorchester 02 and Horry 01. Two smaller dis...
SC's Coastal Growth Engine Just Stalled
For four straight years, South Carolina's three largest coastal districts grew in lockstep. Berkeley added students as housing developments spread through the I-26 corridor. Horry rode the Myrtle Beac...
South Carolina's English Learner Population Surged 39% in Seven Years
Seven years ago, roughly one in 14 South Carolina public school students was classified as Limited English Proficient. By 2024-25, the ratio had crossed one in 10. The state added 22,137 students to t...
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...
How a Small College Built SC's Sixth-Largest School District
Erskine College is a 187-year-old liberal arts school in Due West, South Carolina, a town of fewer than 3,000 people. In 2017, it declared itself a charter school authorizer, a move permitted under st...
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...