Summary:
Rock Hills has two small schools: Rock Hills Elementary School serves prekindergarten through fifth grade and enrolls 187 students, while Rock Hills Junior/Senior High School serves grades 6–12 and enrolls 175. In 2025–26, elementary students’ proficiency rates were 55% in English language arts (ELA), 49% in math, and 50% in science; the secondary school’s rates were 28%, 33%, and 35%. Because the schools serve different grades, their all-grades results are not a like-for-like comparison. The clearest takeaway is that results differ sharply by school: Elementary was above state rates in all three subjects, while Junior/Senior High was below them in all three.
Elementary stands out overall: its results were 9 percentage points above the state in ELA, 8 points above in math, and 12 points above in science. Junior/Senior High was 18 points below the state in ELA, 8 below in math, and 3 below in science. Grade-level results add nuance: Elementary’s third graders were 15 points above the state in ELA and 17 points above in math, while its fourth graders were 8 points below in ELA. At Junior/Senior High, seventh-grade ELA was 23 points below the state and eighth-grade ELA was 21 points below; eighth-grade science was a bright spot, 6 points above. Chronic absenteeism was higher than the statewide 18% at both schools: 25% at Elementary and 28% at Junior/Senior High.
Recent scores moved in different directions. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, Elementary gained 6 points in ELA and 13 points each in math and science. Junior/Senior High fell 6 points in ELA and 10 in math, but rose 3 points in science. SchoolDigger’s elementary percentile ranking climbed from 38 to 61 over those years, with its rating rising from 2 to 3 stars; Junior/Senior High’s percentile moved from 75 to 30, while its rating shifted from 4 to 2 stars. Reported student-teacher ratios were similar—11.9 at Elementary and 12.8 at Junior/Senior High. Elementary’s free/reduced-lunch rate was 61%, compared with 55% at the secondary school; these figures are context, not an explanation for the score differences.
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