Belle Hall Elementary

Set in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, Belle Hall Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school, one of the schools within Charleston 01. It caters to 649 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, South Carolina's public schools average about 526 students each, so Belle Hall Elementary sits 23% larger than that benchmark.

Within Charleston 01, which oversees 81 schools and 52,009 students, Belle Hall Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Belle Hall Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). Other groups include 10% Black, 4% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 66% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Across the wider county, census data for Charleston County shows the typical household earns roughly $88,494 per year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Charleston County's 98 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,933 students), Belle Hall Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Lucy Garrett Beckham High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Belle Hall Elementary has fell 14%, going from 752 students in 2018 to 649 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.