Carolina Shores Acceleration Academy

Located at 9654 N. Kings Hwy Unit 2 First Floor, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Carolina Shores Acceleration Academy is a very small secondary school that caters to 277 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by SC Public Charter School District. By comparison, South Carolina's public schools average about 953 students each, so Carolina Shores Acceleration Academy sits 71% smaller than that benchmark.

SC Public Charter School District comprises 43 schools with combined enrollment of 21,383 students; Carolina Shores Acceleration Academy is among them.

Looking at the student body, Carolina Shores Acceleration Academy logs that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment. Other groups include 23% Black, 12% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 34.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Carolina Shores Acceleration Academy higher than the state norm the norm.

Around the school, census data for Horry County shows median household earnings sit near $66,880, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Horry County runs 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 49,639 students), of which Carolina Shores Acceleration Academy is one.

Ocean Bay Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Carolina Shores Acceleration Academy.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area. As a public charter, Carolina Shores Acceleration Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Carolina Shores Acceleration Academy community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.