St. George Middle

Set in St. George, South Carolina, St. George Middle is a close-knit 6-8 campus, one of the schools within Dorchester 04. It instructs 292 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 53% leaner than the state mean of about 622.

Within Dorchester 04, which oversees 7 schools and 2,566 students, St. George Middle is one campus in the system.

On demographics, St. George Middle logs that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 39% Black, 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the area at large, Dorchester County reports that median household income runs about $78,198, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Dorchester County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,832 students), of which St. George Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Williams Memorial Elementary, roughly 1.1 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 6 years. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at St. George Middle has declined 6%, going from 310 students in 2018 to 292 in 2024. Black enrollment moved from 45% to 39% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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