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Palmetto Achievement Center for Excellence Academy · Columbia, SC
See how it ranks: all South Carolina schools by score · Richland County schools by score

SC READY, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Meets or Exceeds Expectations.
English Language Arts
28.1%
State avg 59.7%
District avg 60.1%
County avg 54.5%
+9.6pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
4.6%
State avg 44.2%
District avg 36.9%
County avg 38.7%
+0.6pp since 2023-24
Science
13.9%
State avg 48.9%
District avg 46.5%
County avg 42.3%

What this means: On the SC READY, South Carolina's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 5 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 14 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all South Carolina schools, those numbers are about 60, 44, and 49. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.

By grade, SY 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScience
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 314.8%62.0%27N/A56.6%N/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 420.5%63.6%44N/A53.9%N/A11.4%49.3%44
Grade 530.3%62.6%333.0%48.3%33N/AN/AN/A
Grade 628.6%56.0%283.6%39.7%2817.9%48.6%28
Grade 735.5%58.3%31N/A34.2%N/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 842.3%55.9%267.7%32.6%26N/AN/AN/A

2-year history

All grades, all students. Palmetto Achievement Center for Excellence Academy   South Carolina avg

English Language Arts

53192023-2460282024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2528.1%60.1%54.5%59.7%
SY 2023-2418.5%55.4%49.0%53.5%

Mathematics

4242023-244452024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-254.6%36.9%38.7%44.2%
SY 2023-244.0%38.0%37.5%42.3%

Science

49142024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2513.9%46.5%42.3%48.9%
SY 2023-24N/AN/AN/AN/A

How to read these scores

What is SC READY?
SC READY is the statewide standardized test administered by South Carolina public schools.
What does "% Meets or Exceeds Expectations" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 28.1% mean for English Language Arts at Palmetto Achievement Center for Excellence Academy?
It means about 28.1 percent of students tested at Palmetto Achievement Center for Excellence Academy performed at grade level or above on the SC READY English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for South Carolina that year was 59.7%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in South Carolina, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
South Carolina Department of Education, South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Assessments (SC READY). School-level All Students subgroup from the SCDE Data Files. Headline metric is the cumulative "Meets + Exceeds Expectations" rate (top 2 of 4 SC READY performance levels: Does Not Meet / Approaches / Meets / Exceeds).
How often is it updated?
SC READY is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.

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