Hunter-kinard-tyler High, Neeses SC

Original Research by School Decision on Hunter-kinard-tyler High

Hunter-Kinard-Tyler High sits in Neeses, a small, rural South Carolina town whose agricultural roots show in the surrounding peach orchards and farmland. The school serves the full span of middle and high school, grades six through twelve, and draws its roughly 230 students from a community that has been losing population slowly. The town lacks a traditional downtown or walkable street life; civic life centers on the town hall and post office. Housing values are low, and the area offers few major employers.

The student body is overwhelmingly Black, with a smaller share of White students and a tiny number of Hispanic and multiracial students. Every enrolled student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, a marker of the high level of economic need in the community.

State test results cover only the middle school grades, because South Carolina administers its general assessments through grade eight. In math, performance is very low across the board. In grade six, no students scored at the proficient level; in grade seven, a small fraction did; in grade eight, again none did. A parent looking at math outcomes would want to ask the school what supports are in place and what the high school math experience looks like, since the data does not include those later grades.

ELA results are more mixed. Grade seven stands out, with a majority of students reaching proficiency. Grade six and grade eight show lower shares, though still notably higher than the math figures. The single science result available, for grade six, shows about a quarter of students proficient. Because the state changed its cut scores for ELA and science in this testing year, direct comparisons with prior years are not possible, and the school has only one year of reported data, so no trend is available.

The school offers no public data on discipline, course access, staffing, or attendance. The comparison to other districts in Orangeburg County was not possible because the cohort was too small for a reliable read. There is no graduation rate available in the data, so a parent considering the high school side would need to ask the school directly for its four-year completion rate.

Hunter-Kinard-Tyler High is a small, rural school in a district that has seen little publicly reported change recently. It serves a high-poverty population, and the available academic results show a steep challenge in mathematics and a more varied picture in reading. Families who value a close-knit setting in a quiet agricultural area may find this a familiar fit, but the academic numbers, especially in math, call for a direct conversation with the school about how it addresses those gaps.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

80-89%Cohort of 38 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

241 schools plotted. 4 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 60%

School 0% · District 19% · ▼ 19 pts below district

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

Grade 75%

School 5% · District 13% · ▼ 8 pts below district

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

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 13% · ▼ 13 pts below district

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

English language arts

Grade 630%

School 30% · District 34% · ▼ 4 pts below district

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

Grade 754%

School 54% · District 40% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 827%

School 27% · District 35% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 26 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Science

Grade 625%

School 25% · District 25%

▼ 19 pts below state median · even with county median

This schoolOrangeburg, 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.