Alice Birney Middle School - Charleston, South Carolina/SC

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Alice Birney Middle School

7750 Pinehurst St, Charleston, SC, 29420-4232 -

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Definition of Terms

Alice Birney Middle School

School Level

Middle school

Grades Offered

Grades 6 - 8

County

Charleston County, SC

Students & Faculty

Total Students

756 students

% Male / % Female

52% / 48%

Total Classroom Teachers

54 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 6 - 272 students

Grade 7 - 238 students

Grade 8 - 246 students

This School

(SC) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:14

1:15

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(SC) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	1%	1%
% Hispanic	10%	3%
% Black	67%	41%
% White	21%	53%
% Unknown	1 %	2%

Additional Student Information

This School

(SC) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

71%

45%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(SC) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Charleston County School District

This School's Agency

(SC) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	80	9
Number of Students Managed	44,618 students	4,796 students
District Total Revenue	$507,150,000	$41,758,000
District Expenditure	$452,741,000	$43,328,000
District Revenue / Student	$11,366	$8,707
District Expenditure / Student	$10,147	$9,034

District targets struggling 6th-grade readers (The Post and Courier)
posted on October 4, 2009 at 05:44:24 am
North Charleston schools enroll the highest percentage of students who can't read well, and in a year when literacy is the Charleston County School District's top priority, that presented a challenge for school Superintendent Nancy McGinley.
Charleston County educator dies at 81 (The Post and Courier)
posted on September 21, 2009 at 05:12:23 pm
Glennie Wesley Murray of Hanahan, a retired Charleston County educator and school principal, died Sunday. He was 81.
'You can't believe they can't read.' (The Post and Courier)
posted on May 4, 2009 at 04:48:19 am
One out of every five Alice Birney Middle School students reads so poorly that he needs daily intensive reading classes, sometimes at the second-grade level.
McGinley responds (The Post and Courier)
posted on May 3, 2009 at 04:47:17 am
a CONTINUING series: Over the next several months, The Post and Courier will run occasional stories focusing on reading difficulties in the Lowcountry, where one in seven adults is functionally illiterate. TODAY: Ridge Smith is an all-too- common product of the Charleston County schools...