Here are the best and worst Richland schools, a new SC state report shows
Parents are generally expected to keep a close eye on how their children perform in school.
But what about the schools themselves?
South Carolina education officials recently unveiled the school report cards for the 2023-2024 school year. Compiled by the South Carolina Department of Education, the report cards are designed to increase accessibility and accountability in the state’s public schools with easy-to-understand information.
Every high school, elementary and middle school in the state received ratings on a 100-point scale. The ratings follow terms outlined in state law — excellent, good, average, below average and unsatisfactory. Schools also received ratings on multiple indicators, including graduation rate, academic achievement and college career readiness.
Statewide, 18.4% of schools received an overall ranking of just excellent, lower than the 22.5% of schools that reached that level the previous year.
There were 477 schools that ranked average, a nearly 8% jump from the 442 in the prior school year.
There was a 20% rise in the number of schools with below average rankings year over year. However, there was also a more than 22% decline in schools with an unsatisfactory ranking, year over year.
But how did schools in Richland County perform?
Overall, Richland had a 46% decrease in the number of schools with excellent ratings, year-over-year. The county also had a 7% drop in the number of schools ranked good or average.
Below is a breakdown of how all schools in Richland County performed in the 2023-2024 school year, as well as how they performed the year prior.
To view report cards for every school in the state, click here.
How the rating system works
Ratings for high schools
Excellent schools range with scores from 67 to 100; good scores range from 60 to 66; average ranges from 51-59; below average ranges from 40 to 50 and unsatisfactory schools have scores 39 and lower.
Ratings for middle schools
Excellent schools range with scores from 56 to 100; good scores range from 48 to 55; average ranges from 36 to 47; below average ranges from 29 to 35 and unsatisfactory schools have scores 28 and lower.
Ratings for elementary schools
Excellent schools range with scores from 61 to 100; good scores range from 53 to 60; average ranges from 42 to 52; below average ranges from 34 to 41 and unsatisfactory schools have scores 33 and lower.
Richland school ratings
Excellent
- Brockman Elementary: 68 (73 in 2022)
- Hopkins Elementary: 61 (49 in 2022)
- Richland One Middle College: 91 (95 in 2022)
- Satchel Ford Elementary School: 64 (61 in 2022)
- Kelly Mill Med Pro Middle (elementary students): 65 (65 in 2022)
- Muller Road Middle (elementary students): 62 (69 in 2022)
- Bookman Road Elementary: 62 (65 in 2022)
Good
- Carver-Lyon Elementary: 56 (55 in 2022)
- Logan Elementary: 56 (48 in 2022)
- A.C. Flora High: 60 (58 in 2022)
- A.C. Moore Elementary: 53 (45 in 2022)
- Bradley Elementary: 56 (52 in 2022)
- Rosewood Elementary: 54 (62 in 2022)
- Crayton Middle: 53 (61 in 2022)
- Brennen Elementary: 54 (70 in 2022)
- Lake Carolina Elementary upper campus: 60 (51 in 2022)
- Round Top Elementary: 53 (69 in 2022)
- Blythewood High: 66 (66 in 2022)
- Catawba Trail Elementary: 58 (49 in 2022)
- Forest Lake Elementary: 54 (58 in 2022)
- Blythewood Middle: 48 (53 in 2022)
- E.L. Wright Middle (elementary students): 60 (74 in 2022)
Average
- Annie Burnside Elementary: 47 (57 in 2022)
- Dreher High: 59 (61 in 2022)
- Gadsden Elementary: 46 (51 in 2022)
- Mill Creek Elementary: 50 (44 in 2022)
- South Kilbourne Elementary: 43 (49 in 2022)
- W.A. Perry Middle: 38 (32 in 2022)
- H.B. Rhame Elementary: 42 (44 in 2022)
- Arden Elementary: 52 (41 in 2022)
- Hand Middle: 45 (41 in 2022)
- Horrell Hill Elementary: 50 (38 in 2022)
- Webber Elementary: 52 (50 in 2022)
- W.G. Sanders Middle: 43 (47 in 2022)
- Meadowfield Elementary: 47 (61 in 2022)
- Hyatt Park Elementary: 45 (42 in 2022)
- Forest Heights Elementary: 52 (46 in 2022)
- Carolina School for Inquiry: 43 (57 in 2022)
- Bethel-Hanberry Elementary: 52 (54 in 2022)
- Pontiac Elementary: 49 (47 in 2022)
- Summit Parkway Middle: 40 (46 in 2022)
- Langford Elementary: 50 (46 in 2022)
- Muller Road Middle (middle school students): 41 (44 in 2022)
- Rice Creek Elementary: 51 (50 in 2022)
- Sandlapper Elementary: 47 (50 in 2022)
- Dent Middle: 36 (46 in 2022)
- Jackson Creek Elementary: 45 (44 in 2022)
- Longleaf Middle: 36 (51 in 2022)
- North Springs Elementary: 47 (45 in 2022)
- Spring Valley High: 59 (61 in 2022)
- Windsor Elementary: 43 (40 in 2022)
- Joseph Keels Elementary: 50 (51 in 2022)
- Lonnie B. Nelson Elementary: 51 (48 in 2022)
- Ridge View High: 59 (57 in 2022)
- Summit Parkway Middle (elementary students): 52 (66 in 2022)
Below average
- A.J. Lewis Greenview Elementary: 36 (45 in 2022)
- John P. Thomas Elementary: 39 (43 in 2022)
- Pine Grove Elementary: 37 (38 in 2022)
- W.J. Keenan High: 42 (39 in 2022)
- Caughman Road Elementary: 38 (36 in 2022)
- Eau Claire High: 42 (38 in 2022)
- Hopkins Middle: 35 (41 in 2022)
- Southeast Middle: 31 (41 in 2022)
- Columbia High: 44 (34 in 2022)
- Lower Richland High: 41 (41 in 2022)
- St. Andrews Middle: 34 (38 in 2022)
- Alcorn Middle: 30 (31 in 2022)
- Heyward Gibbes Middle: 31 (42 in 2022)
- Bridge Creek Elementary: 41 (48 in 2022)
- E.L. Wright Middle (middle students): 32 (41 in 2022)
- Kelly Mill Med Pro Middle (middle students): 29 (39 in 2022)
- Westwood High: 43 (49 in 2022)
- Killian Elementary: 41 (58 in 2022)
- L.W. Condor Elementary: 41 (56 in 2022)
- Polo Road Elementary: 37 (46 in 2022)
Unsatisfactory
- Burton-Pack Elementary: 30 (23 in 2022)
- C.A. Johnson High: 35 (30 in 2022)
- Edward E. Taylor Elementary: 33 (51 in 2022)
- Watkins-Nance Elementary: 33 (33 in 2022)
- Richland Northeast High: 39 (41 in 2022)
This story was originally published October 17, 2024 at 6:00 AM.
