Orangeburg Wilkinson High

Orangeburg, South Carolina, is home to Orangeburg Wilkinson High, a mid-sized high school. Its grade span covers grades 9 through 12, with 992 students on the rolls.

Orangeburg Wilkinson High is one school in Orangeburg, a system of 27 schools with 10,462 students.

By race and ethnicity, Orangeburg Wilkinson High is 91% Black. Other groups make up 5% Hispanic and 2% White. Orangeburg County as a whole is about 61% Black, so the school's share is higher. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 17, compared with 70 nationally.

There are 60 full-time-equivalent teachers at Orangeburg Wilkinson High, giving a ratio of 16.5:1. High schools in South Carolina have an average ratio of 15.5:1.

The county, Orangeburg County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $45,675 a year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 16% of people live in poverty. Orangeburg County has 34 public schools with about 11,507 students, including Orangeburg Wilkinson High.

Orangeburg High School for Health Professions sits about 0.5 miles from Orangeburg Wilkinson High. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

Federal data place Orangeburg Wilkinson High in the Town: Distant locale, which means it is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.

In 2024-25, the school enrolled 992, down from 1,111 in 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 16.5:1, from 21.8:1.

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