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Transparency scorecard

South Carolina

Grade B

75/100 points · Ranked #9 of 51 jurisdictions. Agency: South Carolina Department of Social Services, Division of Early Care and Education.

Score breakdown

Record depth
About 7 years of inspection history publicly retrievable.
25/25
Downloadable data
Data is reachable via a public search form or portal API, not a bulk dump.
10/20
Severity levels
State assigns an explicit per-violation or per-visit severity/risk tier.
15/15
Complaints published
Complaints are not published (or not present) in the public feed.
0/15
% with any inspection
95.5% of providers have at least one inspection on file (2,296 of 2,405).
15/15
Access friction
No CAPTCHA, IP block, or auth wall on the primary public records path.
10/10

Licensing portal with severity and correction status.

What this grade means

Does well: Publishes severity tiers and correction status.

See the dimension evidence above and the national rubric for how points were assigned.

Browse South Carolina providers on KinderFax. Official portal: SC Child Care Provider Search. Download the national CSV: transparency-scorecard.csv.