Lake Marion High School

Lake Marion High School is a small high school in Santee, South Carolina, one of the schools in Orangeburg. The school offers grades 9 through 12 and enrolls 692 students. The school is 27% below the average for high schools in South Carolina.

Lake Marion High School is part of Orangeburg, where 27 schools serve 10,462 students.

Black students are 85% of those enrolled at Lake Marion High School. The rest of enrollment is 8% White and 4% Hispanic. Census estimates put the Black share of Orangeburg County's population at about 61%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Lake Marion High School scores 26%.

Staffing at Lake Marion High School comes to 40.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.1:1. High schools in South Carolina average 15.5:1, 1.6 fewer students per teacher than here.

In Orangeburg County, median household income comes to about $45,675, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 19% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 16%. Orangeburg County counts 34 public schools with about 11,507 students.

Measured in a straight line, Lake Marion Middle is less than a tenth of a mile from Lake Marion High School. Within ten miles are 4 other public schools.

The school's locale code, Rural: Remote, means it is in rural territory far from an urban area.

Enrollment at Lake Marion High School was 688 in 2020-21 and 692 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. The ratio was 12.5:1 in 2020-21 and 17.1:1 in 2024-25.

Lake Marion High School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.