Garden’s public schools beat 79% of South Carolina districts
The public schools Garden’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 79% of South Carolina’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
How Garden compares
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on South Carolina’s state tests against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested. Tests count 60%, graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of South Carolina only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so 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.
The district
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
How students score
Every school in Garden
2 schools. Grades are based on state tests and graduation. Any other ratings are made by neighbors.
Parents talk
What Garden families are saying about school.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Colleges near Garden
There’s no college in Garden, but 4 are within 30 miles. The closest is Miller-Motte College-Conway in Conway, 13.6 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Garden. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus · College Scorecard · IPEDS.
School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within South Carolina. Stars are from neighbors.