NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools SC

Best-Resourced Schools in Hemingway, SC

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

6 public K-12 schools in Hemingway from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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Schools

1,548

Students

47.7/100

Avg Resource Index

13.4:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Hemingway has more public-school enrollment than 6% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Hemingway lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

The listed grade span is structurally narrow

Hemingway's 6 listed schools do not form a conventional mix of elementary, middle, and high-school campuses. The missing or thin grade bands make all-school city averages less representative of a typical K–12 pathway; district boundaries and nearby-city options may matter more for the grades not well represented here.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

99.8% of enrollment in reporting Hemingway schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 2 districts. That pairing makes a citywide average especially easy to misread: the need measure follows students, but staffing decisions, calendars, program rules, and federal allocations are administered through separate district structures. The 11-point gap between Carvers Bay Middle and Hemingway Elementary shows how much reported resource capacity can vary inside the same municipal label. Compare schools within the same district first, then use the city view to see how those local systems differ.

City enrollment: Top 94%
School count: Top 79%
Resource Index average: 80th percentile
Teacher staffing: 74th percentile

Carvers Bay High accounts for 25.8% of all Hemingway public-school enrollment

That concentration means Hemingway-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Hemingway school enrollment varies 3.0× across entities

Hemingway school enrollment ranges from 131 students (lowest) to 399 students (highest), a spread of 268 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Hemingway reports 99.8% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Hemingway student-teacher ratio is 13.4:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Carvers Bay Middle	51	259	middle	Georgetown 01
2.	Carvers Bay High	50	399	high	Georgetown 01
3.	Pleasant Hill Elementary	50	301	Combined	Georgetown 01
4.	Hemingway Mb Lee Middle	50	131	middle	Williamsburg 01
5.	Hemingway High	45	189	high	Williamsburg 01
6.	Hemingway Elementary	40	269	Combined	Williamsburg 01

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Hemingway

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

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Which Hemingway school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Carvers Bay Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Hemingway schools in this federal-data comparison at 51/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Hemingway, SC? ▼

Hemingway has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,548 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.4:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.