Red Cedar Elementary School students react after winning the 2015 Palmetto's Finest award, while watching a live statewide 2015 Palmetto’s Finest broadcast from Columbia at their school gym at Red Cedar Elementary on March 24, 2015. More than half of Red Cedar’s students do not speak English as their first language, and nearly three of every four come from families with incomes low enough to qualify them for free or reduced-price lunches. Despite those challenges, in the last four years its state School Report Card Rating has improved from Average to Good to Excellent.