Blackville-Hilda High

Blackville, South Carolina, is home to Blackville-Hilda High, a small high school. The school's 140 students are in grades 9 through 12. Statewide, high schools in South Carolina average about 953 students each.

Barnwell enrolls 3,123 students in 9 schools, including Blackville-Hilda High.

The large majority of students at Blackville-Hilda High, 81%, are Black. The next largest groups are 9% White, 7% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. The school's Black share is 38 points above the 43% share among Barnwell County residents. By the diversity index, Blackville-Hilda High comes in at 33%.

Blackville-Hilda High employs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 8.8:1. That ratio is under the 15.5:1 average for high schools in South Carolina.

Blackville-Hilda High is located in Barnwell County, where median household income is about $46,626, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 20% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 16 public schools in Barnwell County, with a combined enrollment of about 4,300.

The shortest distance from Blackville-Hilda High to another public school is less than a tenth of a mile, to Blackville-Hilda High. The five-mile area around Blackville-Hilda High holds 3 other public schools.

NCES describes the area around Blackville-Hilda High as Rural: Distant, meaning in rural territory some distance from an urban area.

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