Lowcountry Leadership Charter School

Lowcountry Leadership Charter School, a compact K-12 campus in Meggett, South Carolina, operated by Charter Institute at Erskine, educates 520 students, covering grades K through 12. By comparison, South Carolina's public schools average about 1,077 students each, so Lowcountry Leadership Charter School sits 52% below that benchmark.

Charter Institute at Erskine comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 28,041 students; Lowcountry Leadership Charter School is among them.

On demographics, Lowcountry Leadership Charter School logs that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% Black, 7% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Charleston County indicate the typical household earns roughly $88,494 per year, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lowcountry Leadership Charter School is one of 98 public schools in Charleston County (combined enrollment of about 55,933 students).

The closest other public school is Baptist Hill High, roughly 2.3 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Lowcountry Leadership Charter School operates from a small-town location. Lowcountry Leadership Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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