Coastal Montessori Charter

Located at 111 Old Plantation Drive, in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, Coastal Montessori Charter is a low-enrollment elementary campus that caters to 242 students (grades 1 through 8), operated by Georgetown 01. That puts it 54% leaner than the typical public school in South Carolina, which averages around 526 students.

Georgetown 01 runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 8,208 students. Coastal Montessori Charter is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Coastal Montessori Charter shows that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment; the rest reads as 9% Black, 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 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, community-level numbers for Georgetown County indicate median household income runs about $68,713, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Georgetown County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,208 students), Coastal Montessori Charter is one campus in the mix.

Waccamaw High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.5 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Coastal Montessori Charter operates from a town-based location. Coastal Montessori Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 245 students in 2018 compared to 242 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 90% to 78% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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