This Myrtle Beach area school is the best in SC, new state report says. See how other schools rank
Schools won’t send students’ semester report cards home for a couple of months, but report cards for South Carolina schools are here.
Every year the South Carolina Department of Education and the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee release report cards evaluating student performance and school quality in the Palmetto State, and the 2023-2024 academic year’s scores are in.
The report cards use indicators like academic achievement, graduation rate, student progress and college and career readiness to rate elementary, middle and high schools on a 100-point scale. The number of points a school gets determines if it scores an excellent, good, average, below average or unsatisfactory rating.
Of the 57 schools in Horry County, about 26% scored excellent ratings, 44% scored good ratings, 28% scored average ratings and 2% scored unsatisfactorily. No schools in the county scored a below average rating.
With 99 points out of 100, HCS Scholars Academy High School in Conway earned the distinction of the highest score in the state. The program, which students can apply to in eight grade, lets high school students work for a high school diploma and college credits simultaneously through Advanced Placement and dual-enrollment courses at Coastal Carolina University.
According to HCS Scholars Academy High School’s report card, the school was given excellent scores in the academic achievement, preparing for success, graduation rate, college and career readiness, high school student success and school climate categories.
Only one school, the elementary division of Academy of Hope Public Charter School, received an unsatisfactory report card. In the evaluation, the school got an unsatisfactory rating for student progress and a below average rating for academic achievement, though it did receive a good rating for school climate.
Individual school report cards can be viewed here, and report cards for all the schools in Horry County are available here.
The 15 schools with excellent ratings are:
Aynor High School
Carolina Forest Elementary School
Green Sea Floyds Elementary
HCS Early College High School
HCS Scholars Academy High School
Lakewood Elementary School
Midland Elementary
North Myrtle Beach Middle School
Ocean Bay Elementary School
Ocean Bay Middle School
Palmetto Academy of Learning and Success (elementary school)
River Oaks Elementary School
Socastee Elementary
Socastee Middle School
St. James High School
The 25 schools with good ratings are:
Aynor Elementary School
Black Water Middle School
Bridgewater Academy (middle)
Burgess Elementary School
Carolina Forest High School
Conway Elementary
Forestbrook Elementary
Green Sea Floyds High School (high school)
Kingston Elementary
Loris Elementary
Myrtle Beach Middle School
North Myrtle Beach High School
Ocean Drive Elementary School
Palmetto Academy of Learning and Success (middle school)
Palmetto Academy Of Learning Motorsports (PALM)
Palmetto Bays Elementary
Pee Dee Elementary
Riverside Elementary
Socastee High School
South Conway Elementary
St. James Elementary School
St. James Intermediate School
St. James Middle School
Ten Oaks Middle School
Waterway Elementary
The 16 schools with average ratings are:
Academy of Hope Public Charter School (middle school)
Aynor Middle School
Bridgewater Academy (elementary school)
Conway High School
Conway Middle School
Daisy Elementary
Forestbrook Middle School
Green Sea Floyds High School (middle school)
Homewood Elementary
Loris High School
Loris Middle School
Myrtle Beach Elementary School
Myrtle Beach High School
Seaside Elementary
Waccamaw Elementary School
Whittemore Park Middle School
The one school with an unsatisfactory rating is:
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