Statistics on the Equalization School Building Program

June 1954:
South Carolina allocated $58,014,000 for 408 school projects.  About 275 of these projects are new schools, while other projects involve extensions (additions),  renovations, improvements, and equipment ranging from "blackboards to soup pots." (William D. Workman Papers)

December 1954:
60% of  the $124,329,394.11 allocated to black schools. (South Carolina's Educational Revolution)
 
January  1955:
Approximately 773 schools have received money from the equalization program. (Governor George Bell Timmerman, Jr., First Annual Message to the General Assembly)

November 1955:
More than $149 million spent on schools; $81,500,000 to black schools. (Southern School News)

1956:
All school districts have at least one black high school and elementary school.

January 1956:
The State Educational Finance Commission estimates that equalization is about 95% complete. (Charleston News and Courier)

March 1956:
$199,076,000 of funds allocated to projects with $86,000,000 going to black schools. (Charleston News and Courier)

1957:
School  districts reduced from 1220 to 107; number of schools reduced from 3539 to 1703.  Number of one- and two-teacher schools reduced from 1677 in 1950 to 356 in 1955. (State Superintendant's Report)

February 1958:
$179,927,285 of funds allocated to projects; 50.6% of these funds for black schools. (George Bell Timmerman Papers)

October 1958:
$189,205,571 of funds allocated to projects; 48,9% of these funds for black schools.  School districts, with a few exceptions, are determined to have "substantially equalized facilities as between the races."  (William D. Workman Papers, letter from State Educational Finance Commission director E.R. Crow)