This Kids Count report examines statewide trends in the well-being of South Carolina's children. The statistical portrait is based on 42 indicators in the areas of demographics, family, economic status, health, readiness and early school performance, scholastic achievement, and adolescent risk behaviors. The indicators are: (1) population; (2) births to teen mothers; (3) births to mothers not completing high school; (4) births to single mothers; (5) divorce rate; (6) single-parent family; (7) parents working; (8) abuse and neglect; (9) family violence; (10) separation from parents; (11) out of home placements; (12) adult/child ratio; (13) poverty; (14) barriers to self-sufficiency; (15) income; (16) child support payments; (17) prenatal care; (18) low birth weight; (19) infant mortality; (20) childhood injuries and deaths; (21) immunization; (22) sexually transmitted diseases; (23) healthy lifestyles; (24) tobacco use; (25) disabilities; (26) emotional and behavioral disorders; (27) inadequate health care; (28) ambulatory care; (29) first-grade readiness; (30) first- through third-grade failure rates; (31) overage for grade three; (32) special education; (33) achievement trends; (34) Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test; (35) dropout rates; (36) adolescents not in school or employed; (37) sexual activity and pregnancy; (38) alcohol use; (39) heavy drinking; (40) drug use; (41) juvenile delinquency; and (42) adolescent deaths. Statewide data and summary information are provided for each indicator. Thirteen tables are included and summarize specific indicator information. The report's findings indicate that too many children are at risk of not growing up to become self-supporting adults, with 25.1% in single-parent families, 21% in poverty, 33.4% not graduating from school, 37.4% of high school students using alcohol, and 19.6% using drugs each month. (SD)