Note(s): Data culled by the authors from publicly available sources. The graduation rate data was retrieved from the South Carolina School Report Cards database (South Carolina Education Oversite Committee, 2025). End-of-Course Examination Program data was culled from datasets on the South Carolina Department of Education (2025) website. As an important contextual note, the South Carolina Department of Education shifted from testing English I to English II in 2020 and implemented revised exams for United States History and Biology in 2022 and 2023, respectively, based on new standards. Therefore, the data were impacted by both the COVID-19 pandemic and assessment changes

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