Meeting Street at Burns

Meeting Street at Burns is one of the cozy elementary-level communitys in North Charleston, South Carolina, one of the schools within Charleston 01, with 295 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 526 students per school, that is 44% smaller than typical.

Within Charleston 01, which oversees 81 schools and 52,009 students, Meeting Street at Burns is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Meeting Street at Burns records that the largest single group is Black, at 72% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 22% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Charleston County put median household earnings sit near $88,494, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Charleston County's 98 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,933 students), Meeting Street at Burns is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Mary Ford Early Childhood Learning and Family Center, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.