Frequently Asked Questions

All South Carolina Counties have a state issued county number, Edgefield is 19. School districts are identified by the two digit county number followed by a two digit number for the district in the county starting with one. Edgefield has only one school district so our district number is 1901. Each school is also issued a three digit school number by the state, the following is a table of school information including the state school number. In some places the school number is used with the leading 0's and other places not.

STHS's full school number would be written as 1901002

This school number is used for things like the first part our district phone numbers etc.

School Number	State School Number	NAME	ABBREVIATION	Grade Range
2	002	Strom Thurmond High School	STHS	9 to 12
3	003	Douglas Elementary School	DES	-2 to 5
5	005	Johnston Elementary School	JES	-2 to 5
8	008	Merriwether Elementary School	MES	-2 to 5
7	007	W. E. Parker Elementary School	WEP	-2 to 5
9	009	Johnston Edgefield Trenton Middle School	JET	6 to 8
10	010	Merriwether Middle School	MMS	6 to 8
507	507	Academic Recovery Camp	ARC	0 to 8
498	498	Read to Succeed Summer Reading Camp	R2S	-1 to 6