Chicora Elementary

Chicora Elementary is one of the low-enrollment K-5 schools in North Charleston, South Carolina, run under Charleston 01, with 316 students on its rolls from grades 1 through 5. That puts it 40% below the typical public school in South Carolina, which averages around 526 students.

Chicora Elementary is one of 81 schools operated by Charleston 01, a district that caters to 52,009 students overall.

On demographics, Chicora Elementary shows that 80% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest reads as 16% Hispanic. By comparison, Charleston County as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, census data for Charleston County shows median household income runs about $88,494, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Chicora Elementary is one of 98 public schools in Charleston County (combined enrollment of about 55,933 students).

Nearest neighbor: Military Magnet Academy, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chicora Elementary.

Chicora Elementary operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 44%: 562 students in 2018 compared to 316 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 93% to 80% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Chicora Elementary community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.