Whale Branch Middle

Whale Branch Middle, a rural-scale middle school in Seabrook, South Carolina, part of Beaufort 01, hosts 243 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, South Carolina's public schools average about 622 students each, so Whale Branch Middle sits 61% leaner than that benchmark.

Beaufort 01 comprises 32 schools with combined enrollment of 21,050 students; Whale Branch Middle is among them.

On demographics, Whale Branch Middle records that the largest single group is Black, at 67% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 21% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the resource side, On paper, Whale Branch Middle has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Beaufort County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,573 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Beaufort County's 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,968 students), Whale Branch Middle is one campus in the mix.

Whale Branch Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Whale Branch Middle.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Whale Branch Middle's enrollment has edged down 34% since 2018, when it stood at 367 (now 243). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 5% to 21%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 7.6:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.