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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...
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 White-Black Graduation Gap Peaked During COVID. Now It's Narrowing.
Black students in South Carolina graduated at 83.5% in 2025, the highest rate the state has recorded for the subgroup, up from 78.1% four years earlier. That 5.4-point four-year gain has driven the wh...
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...