Middle · South Carolina
Hand Middle
Free meals for allHand Middle, a public middle school in Columbia, South Carolina: grades 6–8, 755 students, 12.4 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Richland 01.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 755
- Teachers (FTE)
- 61.0
- Students per teacher
- 12.4
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 73% of middle schools in South Carolina
Median 13.8 · 250 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 72% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Larger than 64% of middle schools in South Carolina
Median 622 · 250 schools compared
Larger than 74% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on South Carolina's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
South Carolina: 60%56%proficient
New test or proficiency bar this year: not comparable with the year before.
A higher share proficient than 57% of middle schools in South Carolina
Median 54% · 250 middle schools compared
731 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · SC Ready; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
South Carolina: 44%32%proficient
+1.3 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 54% of middle schools in South Carolina
Median 30% · 250 middle schools compared
736 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · SC Ready; proficient means Levels 3-4
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize city
- Run by
- Richland 01
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Richland 01.
Location
- Address
- 2600 Wheat Street, Columbia, SC 29205
- Phone
- (803)343-2947
- City or town
- Columbia
- County
- Richland County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher | Reading | Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Crayton MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 952 | 14.0 | 68% | 52% |
W. A. Perry MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 320 | 10.0 | 39% | 11% |
W. G. Sanders MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 503 | 9.3 | 46% | 24% |
Cyril B. Busbee Creative Arts AcademyFree meals for all | 6–8 | 442 | 12.6 | 45% | 24% |
Heyward Gibbes MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 252 | 9.9 | 37% | 8.6% |
Alcorn MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 381 | 12.5 | 26% | 8.8% |
Reading and Math: share of tested students proficient or above on the state's own tests (grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year). Compare only within a state.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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