Cainhoy Elementary

Cainhoy Elementary, a modestly sized K-5 school in Huger, South Carolina, one of the schools within Berkeley 01, hosts 228 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 57% leaner than the state mean of about 526.

Berkeley 01 runs 47 schools in total, collectively educating 39,543 students. Cainhoy Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Cainhoy Elementary shows that 70% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest breaks down as 18% Hispanic, 7% White, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, The school lists 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.8:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Berkeley County put median household earnings sit near $84,358, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Berkeley County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 40,966 students), of which Cainhoy Elementary is one.

Philip Simmons High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 15%: 198 students in 2018 compared to 228 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 7% to 18%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.