5 years after reopening with a new mission, SC agriculture school is beyond capacity

Cows at the Governor’s School for Agriculture on Feb. 21, 2025. (Photo by Skylar Laird/SC Daily Gazette)

McCORMICK — Cows compose the greeting committee at the Governor’s School for Agriculture, flocking to the fence just past the entrance to watch visitors drive past.

Established in 1797 as a farming school for poor and orphaned children, the campus known for centuries as John de la Howe has changed missions several times. The latest turned it into the nation’s only residential public high school providing an agricultural education…

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