Charleston, SC - Charleston County students are moving on after moving out. The district shut down five local schools citing budget cuts. Now it's keeping track of those displaced  students seeing how they're making out.

When the district closed those five schools last year, thousands of students were relocated having to meet new teachers and adjusting to new surroundings.

Third grader, Shania Drayton likes solving math problems. She counts on her mom, Sandra Perry who helps her with homework every night. One year ago, Shania attended Fraser Elementary. This year she’s at Orange Grove Elementary.

“Her academics started to excel, just a totally different child,” Perry said. “She’s happy. She looks forward to going to school. Her eyes just light up.”

But not long ago, Perry led the fight against the district closing Fraser, speaking out to board members and holding protests. But after losing that fight and Fraser was closed down, she realizes new doors have opened for her daughter.

“I was just looking at some of her scores, her test scores today and I’m like, man, this is my child,” Perry said.

School board members are now tracking the progress of all students moved from the five failing schools.

“We know where they came from, we know what schools they are in now, well able to track their grades, their discipline, attendance on a daily basis,” Janet Rose said. Rose is the Executive Director of Accountability and Academic Outcome for Charleston County School District.

The district says they are waiting on grades to come in to be able to see how those students were affected on a larger scale. They'll present that information to the school board.

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