Summary:
Zip code 29690 is home to just one high school, Travelers Rest High, which serves grades 9-12 with an enrollment of 1,277 students in the Travelers Rest area of South Carolina.
Travelers Rest High is part of the highly regarded Greenville 01 district, which ranks in the top 15% of districts statewide. However, the school itself has seen its state ranking slip from 81st to 109th over the past two years, now sitting in the 56th percentile. The most pressing concern is chronic absenteeism, with 34.1% of students chronically absent—about 1.5 times the district and state rates of roughly 22%. This likely contributes to the school's graduation rate of 84.5%, which trails the district by 6.1 points and the state by 2.2 points. The dropout rate of 3.1% is also 55% higher than both district and state averages.
Academically, the school shows a mixed picture. In the most recent year, U.S. History proficiency was a standout at 78.44%, beating the state average by nearly 16 percentage points and even outperforming the district. However, English scores have declined sharply year-over-year—English 1 dropped from 67.33% to 58.88% and English 2 fell from 87.58% to 79.09%. The school now trails the state in both English subjects. With per-student spending of $12,589 and a 19.2:1 student-teacher ratio, resources appear adequate, but the attendance crisis and declining English performance suggest targeted interventions are needed to reverse the school's downward trajectory.
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