4041-A Taranto Loop #3501-A
Myrtle Beach, SC 29579

Over the past several years, this school has definitely been moving in the wrong direction. Education of students, support of teachers, and improvement of the overall learning environment, have all taken a backseat to the pursuit of athletic achievement and the most current educational excellence theme of the year. Grades and class completion are subject to manipulation by administrators in order to artificially inflate graduation success.Teachers are passive, demoralized, and uninspired. Classroom management is nonexistent. Teachers teach from their desk and spend their time buried in their laptops. Students are frequently off task or asleep or on their phones. The school does not enforce the South Carolina Department of education’s cell phone, and personal electronic device policy.Administration is unresponsive and seems interested in only making the symptoms of problems go away rather than solving the problems themselves. Communication is terrible. There is zero transparency in the decision-making process. All decisions are made at the top, there is no distribution of authority, and teachers are not empowered to make decisions. Vandalism, disrespect and student fights are a regular occurrence on campus. Discipline is terrible. As a teacher, I would never recommend a parent send their child to this school.

As a Myrtle Beach Native I do not recommend this school to anyone! My son went here for a few months and it was not well put together. It was low budgeted and you can tell they struggled all around. While my son attended this school it consisted of a robbery which I later found out it was an inside job. The janitor at the time Royce Franklin and the principal Pinto seem to have more than a work relationship going on. The janitor seem to hold many jobs such as security, the afterschool teacher, and an assistant principal! I say that jokingly he stated this after having a meeting about him taking a child unattended to his private office after school hours without proper supervision, to give the child candy after school hours which I found concernin. I brought these things up to the principal and even higher up to the school board. I felt like the principal did not care about my concerns as a parent and a paying one she sided with her employee. I have recordings and emails as proof. I will neverrrrrr recommend this school to anyone. I strongly encourage other parents to thoroughly research and ask detailed questions before making a decision. Please take it from someone whose born and raised here!

We've loved Ocean Bay Middle for our son.