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Forest Acres, SC schools

12 public, charter and private schools in Forest Acres. Search by name or narrow by level, type or district.

CSchool Grade #33Best schools in SC (of 141)#118Highest graduation rate in SC (of 160)

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Forest Acres’s School Grade: C

The public schools Forest Acres’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 66% of South Carolina’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.

C+Test scoresCGraduation

South Carolina school districts we grade (86)Better than 34%

Lower resultsHigher results

South Carolina towns with similar household incomes (129)Better than 14%

High confidence. Built on 7,600 tested students and a graduating class of 1,417; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.

How the School Grade works

Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on South Carolina’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of South Carolina only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in South Carolina with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.

Test scores · 2020–21

State test results

Math (Richland School District 1)26%

State average 38.3%

Graduation · class of 2020

83% graduate on time

Graduation rate

83%

SC: 82%

Graduating class

1,417

students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #118 of 160 SC towns →

Districts

The district serving Forest Acres

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Richland School District 1Grades PK–12 · 48 schools · 21,814 students

$20,012 per studentSC $15,090C

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Within reach

Colleges near Forest Acres

There’s no college in Forest Acres, but 9 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Southeastern College-Columbia in Dentsville, 2.2 miles away.

Southeastern College-ColumbiaCareer school · For-profit · Dentsville2.2 mi249 students

Benedict CollegeUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Columbia3 mi1,575 students Allen UniversityUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Columbia3.1 mi668 students Columbia CollegeUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Columbia3.4 mi736 students University of South Carolina-ColumbiaUniversity or college · Public · Columbia4 mi33,511 students South University-ColumbiaUniversity or college · For-profit · Columbia4.5 mi240 students

Fortis College-ColumbiaCareer school · For-profit · Columbia6.3 mi513 students

Columbia International UniversityUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Columbia6.5 mi822 students

Midlands Technical CollegeCommunity college · Public · West Columbia10 mi5,986 students

Straight-line distance from the center of Forest Acres. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.

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