Charleston
Charleston Tries Paying Families $25 a Week to Send Kids to School
Correction (August 16, 2026): An earlier draft counted a Charleston charter outside the district in its school comparison. The corrected count is five of South Carolina's 16 majority-absent schools in...
Charleston Reaches the 90% Club at 90.0%
Charleston County School District posted a 90.0% four-year graduation rate in 2025, its first time at the 90% threshold, and the second consecutive year the district posted its highest rate ever. With...
South Carolina's Boys Are Catching Up, But the Gender Gap in Graduation Remains Nearly 7 Points
Correction (August 1, 2026): An earlier version of this article said the male graduation rate spent three consecutive years below 76%. It spent two, in 2018 and 2019. That version also dated the peak ...
Greenville County Schools Crosses 90% Graduation Rate for the First Time
Correction (August 1, 2026): An earlier version of this article said every major subgroup in Greenville improved after 2018. Youth in foster care did not. The district's foster care graduation rate fe...