Lowcountry Acceleration Academy

Lowcountry Acceleration Academy operates as a modestly sized four-year high school in N Charleston, South Carolina, run under SC Public Charter School District. Current enrollment sits at 619 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 35% smaller than the state mean of about 953.

SC Public Charter School District runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 21,383 students. Lowcountry Acceleration Academy is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Lowcountry Acceleration Academy shows that the largest single group is Black at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 31% White, 17% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 42.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Charleston County) logs that median household income runs about $88,494, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Charleston County runs 98 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,933 students), of which Lowcountry Acceleration Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Learn4Life High School-Charleston, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lowcountry Acceleration Academy.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area. Lowcountry Acceleration Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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