The school district consists of the northern portion of Lexington County lying north of Lake Murray and the Saluda River and the northwestern portion of Richland County lying south of the Broad River.
The school district has three attendance areas: Chapin, Dutch Fork, and Irmo.
The interim Superintendent is Akil Ross, appointed in June 2021 following the sudden resignation of former superintendent Christina Melton at a board meeting on June 14 over conflicts with some school board members.
[citation needed] In February 2023, an AP English teacher in Chapin was forced to halt a lesson on Ta-Nehisi Coates' book Between the World and Me by school administrators, who claimed that the lesson violated state budget provisions.
South Carolina law prohibits the use of state funds for lessons that teach that "an individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress on account of his race or sex" or "an individual, by virtue of his race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously.