Guinyard-Butler Middle

Guinyard-Butler Middle is a close-knit 6-8 campus in Barnwell, South Carolina, part of Barnwell. The school works with 335 students in grades 7 through 8. That puts it 46% smaller than the typical public school in South Carolina, which averages around 622 students.

Within Barnwell, which oversees 9 schools and 3,123 students, Guinyard-Butler Middle is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Guinyard-Butler Middle logs that the largest single group is White at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 42% Black, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

On the resource side, On paper, Guinyard-Butler Middle has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.8:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Barnwell County) records that median household income runs about $46,626, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 20%. Guinyard-Butler Middle is one of 16 public schools in Barnwell County (combined enrollment of about 4,300 students).

Barnwell Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Guinyard-Butler Middle.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Guinyard-Butler Middle has stayed largely flat, going from 337 students in 2018 to 335 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 49% to 42%. Class-load math has grew: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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