St. Stephen Middle

St. Stephen Middle is a small middle school in St. Stephen, South Carolina, under Berkeley 01. The grade span is 6 through 8, and enrollment is 172 students. An average school in this group (middle schools in South Carolina) has about 622 students.

St. Stephen Middle is part of a district of 47 schools: Berkeley 01, with 39,543 students.

Black students are the majority at St. Stephen Middle, with 68% of enrollment. Other groups make up 20% White, 9% multiracial, and 3% Hispanic. Berkeley County as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 49% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

The school reports 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 10.8 students per teacher. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 13.8:1 average for middle schools in South Carolina.

allk12 grades St. Stephen Middle a C-. The grade compares the school only with South Carolina public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.

Recent Census Bureau figures for Berkeley County show that the median household income is $84,358, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 31%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Besides St. Stephen Middle, Berkeley County has 48 other public schools.

Of nearby public schools, St. Stephen Elementary is the closest, at about 0.6 miles. St. Stephen Middle has 2 other public schools within five miles.

NCES describes the area around St. Stephen Middle as Rural: Distant, meaning in rural territory some distance from an urban area.

Enrollment at St. Stephen Middle dropped 25% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 229 to 172 students. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 12.1:1; by 2024-25 it was 10.8:1.

Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at St. Stephen Middle. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.