Mt. Pleasant Academy

Mt. Pleasant Academy is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, one of the schools within Charleston 01, hosting 630 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Charleston 01 runs 81 schools in total, collectively educating 52,009 students. Mt. Pleasant Academy is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mt. Pleasant Academy shows that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Black, 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.5:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the 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. Mt. Pleasant Academy is one of 98 public schools in Charleston County (combined enrollment of about 55,933 students).

Nearest neighbor: Moultrie Middle, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Mt. Pleasant Academy operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 3%: 610 students in 2018 compared to 630 in 2025.

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