Hannah-pamplico Elementary/middle, Pamplico SC

Original Research by School Decision on Hannah-pamplico Elementary/middle

Hannah-Pamplico Elementary/Middle School serves students from preschool through eighth grade on a shared campus with the district’s high school in the small, rural town of Pamplico. The school is part of Florence County School District 2, and it is a regular public school with no charter or magnet status. For families considering this school, the most immediate context is the community itself: Pamplico is a quiet, slow-declining town once known as a tobacco market, now primarily residential and agricultural, with a Main Street of brick storefronts and a handful of civic anchors such as a public library, three town parks, and a recreation complex. Housing costs are low relative to state and national benchmarks, and the town’s distance to Florence and the interstate means that access to a larger job and amenity base is a short drive away. The school’s enrollment is large for a combined elementary-middle school serving these grades, and the student body is majority white, with a substantial Black minority and a small number of Hispanic students and students of two or more races. Every student in the school qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, a marker of the community’s economic profile that parents should be aware of when considering peer context and the kinds of institutional support programs they might expect.

Academically, the school’s performance shows a clear pattern. In reading and English language arts, proficiency rates across grades three through eight sit near or above the midpoint when compared with other districts in Florence County, and across all tested grades the school’s ELA results are generally higher than its math results. The strongest elementary ELA grade shows a majority of students meeting proficiency, and by middle school the rate remains above half in some grades. Math proficiency, by contrast, is lower across the board, with rates that decline as grade levels rise; by the end of eighth grade only a modest share of students score at the proficient level. Science scores, available for grades four and six, also fall below half. In social studies, the most recent data is from several years ago, and that assessment used different cut scores, so direct comparison is not possible. Because the school does not serve high school grades, there is no graduation rate to report. Trends over time are limited, since the available data covers only a single recent year, so it is not possible to say whether these results are improving, declining, or holding steady.

The school’s overall proficiency index, which averages results across all tested subjects and grades, is above the midpoint among Florence County’s four school districts. That is a useful benchmark but a broad one; parents will want to look closely at the grade-level math results, where the school shows a pattern of declining proficiency from earlier to later grades. The state testing data does not include participation rates, so it is not possible to verify whether all eligible students were tested, and special education and English learner counts were not reported. Families of students with individualized education plans or language needs may want to ask the school directly about available supports.

The district itself, Florence 02, did not have recent major changes or referenda reported in available sources. The school shares a campus with Hannah-Pamplico High School, which means that students moving on to ninth grade do not change buildings. For a parent or resident assessing fit, this is a school in a small, low-cost rural community where nearly all students face economic disadvantage, where reading scores are a relative strength and math scores are a soft spot worth investigating further with the school, and where the academic program runs through eighth grade on a single campus with the high school but does not extend to high school course metrics like graduation rates or advanced coursework.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 346%

School 46% · District 46%

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 439%

School 39% · District 39%

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 526%

School 26% · District 26%

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Grade 638%

School 38% · District 38%

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Grade 730%

School 30% · District 30%

▲ 3 pts above state median

Grade 820%

School 20% · District 20%

▼ 7 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 354%

School 54% · District 54%

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 455%

School 55% · District 55%

▼ 6 pts below state median · even with county median

Grade 549%

School 49% · District 49%

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 652%

School 52% · District 52%

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 744%

School 44% · District 44%

▼ 12 pts below state median

Grade 853%

School 53% · District 53%

even with state median

Science

Grade 436%

School 36% · District 36%

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 631%

School 31% · District 31%

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 556%

School 56% · District 56%

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 741%

School 41% · District 41%

▼ 24 pts below state median

This schoolFlorence 02, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 5Lower-income45%Higher-income64%19 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income48%Higher-income63%15 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income38%Higher-income55%16 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income40%Higher-income75%35 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 5Lower-income20%Higher-income40%20 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income31%Higher-income52%21 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income25%Higher-income50%25 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income9%Higher-income36%26 pp gap