Hemingway MB Lee Middle

Located at 400 South Main Street, in Hemingway, South Carolina, Hemingway MB Lee Middle is a tiny intermediate school that teaches 131 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Williamsburg 01. By comparison, South Carolina's public schools average about 622 students each, so Hemingway MB Lee Middle sits 79% leaner than that benchmark.

Hemingway MB Lee Middle is one of 10 schools operated by Williamsburg 01, a district that caters to 2,794 students overall.

On demographics, Hemingway MB Lee Middle records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (83%). Other groups include 11% White, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Hemingway MB Lee Middle logs 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average.

In the area at large, Williamsburg County reports that median household earnings sit near $46,213, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Hemingway MB Lee Middle is one of 11 public schools in Williamsburg County (combined enrollment of about 2,794 students).

Nearest neighbor: Hemingway High, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Hemingway MB Lee Middle.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Hemingway MB Lee Middle's enrollment has edged down 37% since 2018, when it stood at 207 (now 131). The Black share of enrollment shrank from 90% to 83% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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