| HCS is the
first district in South Carolina to earn district-wide
accreditation |
HCS Palmetto
Achievement Challenge Test (PACT) scores outpace state at
every level |
| 93% of Horry
County schools are Excellent, Good or Average
on State Report Cards |
More HCS
students take AP courses and exams; IB results among the
best in state |
| Fourteen
schools recognized by the Education Oversight Committee for
closing the achievement gap. |
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HCS is first district in S.C. to earn district-wide
accreditation
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on
Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI) announced
that HCS is the first district in S.C. to earn
accreditation under a new district review process. |
80.7% of tenth graders pass HSAP
HCS tenth graders showed improvement in performance on the
High School Assessment Program (HSAP) examination and
performed higher than the state in the percentage of the
students who passed both sections of the test on their
first attempt. |
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Scholarships total $34 million
The Class of 2006 earned $34
million in college scholarship awards. |
More HCS students take AP
courses and exams
Districtwide, 628 students
participated in AP courses, an increase of 112 over the 516
who participated last year. The percentage of students
scoring between 3-5 on AP exams was 55 percent, down from
62 percent last year. |
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Closing the gap
Fourteen schools within Horry
County Schools were among 138 statewide recognized by the
S.C. Education Oversight Committee for closing the
achievement gap. HCS had more schools recognized than any
district in the state. |
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| Nearly half of Horry County
schools meet tougher AYP accountability standards
Horry County Schools met 31 out of 37 objectives for
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), five fewer than in 2005. In
a year when the rigor increased significantly for meeting
AYP, HCS met 84 percent of district objectives, a decrease
of fourteen percent from last year. Throughout the
district, schools collectively met 720 out of 795
objectives, or 91 percent, a decrease from 95 percent in
2005.
This year, 45 percent of HCS schools met all of their
AYP targets, down from 61 percent in 2005. Eighty-seven
percent of the 24 schools not meeting AYP fell short by
missing between 1-5 goals. Thirty percent missed by just
one goal, and missing one category means the entire school
does not make AYP. |
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Quick Facts |
- Horry County Schools
enrollment grew to 36,142 students this year
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- 99 percent of parents
participated in a parent-teacher conference in 2005
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- The student attendance
rate for 2005 was 96.0 percent
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- Horry County Schools'
student-teacher ratio is 22 to 1 in core subjects
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