Strom Thurmond High

Strom Thurmond High is one of the compact high schools in Johnston, South Carolina, part of Edgefield 01, with 720 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 24% smaller than the state mean of about 953.

Within Edgefield 01, which oversees 7 schools and 3,069 students, Strom Thurmond High is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Strom Thurmond High logs that the most-represented group is Black (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 39% White, 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Edgefield County as a whole is about 31% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Edgefield County indicate the typical household earns roughly $73,029 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Edgefield County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,862 students), Strom Thurmond High is one campus in the mix.

Johnston-Edgefield-Trenton Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 14%: 836 students in 2018 compared to 720 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 5% to 12% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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