Blackville-Hilda High

Blackville-Hilda High is a tiny four-year high school in Blackville, South Carolina, part of Barnwell. The school serves 140 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 85% below the state mean of about 953.

Blackville-Hilda High is one of 9 schools operated by Barnwell, a district that educates 3,123 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Blackville-Hilda High records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (81%); the rest comes out to 9% White, 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Barnwell County as a whole is about 43% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Blackville-Hilda High shows 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average.

Across the wider county, census data for Barnwell County shows median household earnings sit near $46,626, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 20%. In all, Barnwell County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,300 students), of which Blackville-Hilda High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Blackville-Hilda High, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Blackville-Hilda High.

The school occupies an outlying site.

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