Summary:
The Greenwood 51 school district in South Carolina has only one middle school, Ware Shoals Elementary Middle, which serves grades 5-8 and has an enrollment of 265 students. Despite being the sole middle school in the district, Ware Shoals Elementary Middle performs relatively well, ranking in the top 36% of middle schools statewide and maintaining a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger over the past three years.
Academically, Ware Shoals Elementary Middle excels in English Language Arts (ELA), with proficiency rates ranging from 46.7% to 61.9% across grades 5-8, exceeding the state averages of 55.7% to 53.7%. However, the school lags behind the state average in Mathematics proficiency, with rates ranging from 19.3% to 52.5% compared to the state averages of 45.8% to 30.2%. The school's 6th grade Science proficiency rate of 40.7% is also slightly below the state average of 43%.
Ware Shoals Elementary Middle serves a predominantly economically disadvantaged student population, with 100% of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Despite this challenge, the school's higher-than-average per-student spending of $12,092 and lower student-teacher ratio of 12.4 to 1 suggest that the Greenwood 51 district is investing resources to support the school and its students. Overall, Ware Shoals Elementary Middle appears to be a solid middle school, with strengths in ELA and areas for improvement in Mathematics, serving a high-needs student population.
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