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Florence 4 and Florence 1 to consolidate, Timmonsville High School to be 'retired'
Matthew Christian -- SCNow.com -- Mar 2, 2021
TIMMONSVILLE, S.C. – The class of 2022 will be the last class to graduate from Timmonsville High School.

Florence County School District Four will be consolidated into Florence One Schools on July 1, 2022 and the high school will be “retired,” according to S.C. Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman.

She did not specify which of the three Florence One high schools – South Florence, West Florence or Wilson – the students would attend.

There were rumors during the early part of the consolidation discussion that the Timmonsville students would be bussed to Wilson, the farthest of the three from Timmonsville, supposedly due to overcrowding at West, the closest school, and South Florence.

But sending the students to Wilson would create a potential Constitutional issue. Namely, is the overcrowding being used as a pretext to send the largely African American students to Wilson, which has a student body that is 66% African American, rather than the more diverse West Florence and South Florence?

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I think FS1 will have no choice but to adjust the attendance lines to move some students from WF & SF to Wilson to make room for the T-ville kids at West & South.

It might make sense for FS1 to operate Timmonsville as a magnet school to relieve over-crowding at West. Maybe use the T-Ville campus as the Freshman academy for West.

The state didn't give FS1 much time to deal with this.

Here's a map showing the locations and attendance zones for the 4 schools.