Ware Shoals High

Located at 56 South Greenwood Avenue, in Ware Shoals, South Carolina, Ware Shoals High is a rural-scale high school that teaches 265 students (grades 9 through 12), run under Greenwood 51. Compared to the state average of about 953 students per school, that is 72% below typical.

Greenwood 51 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 888 students; Ware Shoals High is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ware Shoals High logs that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 19% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Greenwood County shows the typical household earns roughly $52,830 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Greenwood County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,771 students), Ware Shoals High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Ware Shoals Elementary Middle, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Ware Shoals High.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Ware Shoals High's enrollment has edged up 4% since 2018, when it stood at 256 (now 265). Over the same period, the White share declined from 78% to 68%.

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