College Park Middle

College Park Middle is a moderately sized middle school in Ladson, South Carolina, operated by Berkeley 01. The school instructs 666 students in grades 6 through 8.

Within Berkeley 01, which oversees 47 schools and 39,543 students, College Park Middle is one campus in the system.

On demographics, College Park Middle records that 32% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 30% Hispanic, 24% White, 12% multiracial. By comparison, Berkeley County as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, College Park Middle shows 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average.

In the surrounding community, census data for Berkeley County shows median household earnings sit near $84,358, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Berkeley County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 40,966 students), of which College Park Middle is one.

College Park Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around College Park Middle.

College Park Middle operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 11%: 751 students in 2018 compared to 666 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 37% to 24% across the same window.

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