Summary:
The city of Andrews, South Carolina is home to a single middle school, Rosemary Middle School, which serves students in grades 6-8. Based on the available data, Rosemary Middle School appears to be a low-performing school, consistently ranking in the bottom half of South Carolina middle schools over the past few years.
Rosemary Middle School's academic performance is significantly below the state and district averages in both English Language Arts and Mathematics across all grade levels. For example, in the 2024-2025 school year, only 21.5% of 6th graders were proficient in ELA, compared to 56% statewide. In Mathematics, only 7.3% of 8th graders were proficient, compared to 32.4% statewide. However, the school's performance in EOCEP/Algebra 1/Mathematics for the Technologies 2 is an outlier, with 100% proficiency, compared to 71.52% for the Georgetown 01 district and 73.95% for the state.
Rosemary Middle School faces several challenges, including a high chronic absenteeism rate of 22.5% in the 2023-2024 school year and a 100% free and reduced-price lunch rate, indicating a high-poverty student population. Despite these challenges, the school appears to have adequate funding, spending $14,318 per student, and a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 12.2. This raises questions about the effective use of resources and the potential need to explore other factors, such as instructional practices, school leadership, or community engagement, that may be impacting student outcomes.
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