Stono Park Elementary

Set in Charleston, South Carolina, Stono Park Elementary is a tight-knit K-5 school, overseen by Charleston 01. It teaches 337 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, South Carolina's public schools average about 526 students each, so Stono Park Elementary sits 36% leaner than that benchmark.

Charleston 01 runs 81 schools in total, collectively educating 52,009 students. Stono Park Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Stono Park Elementary shows that the largest single group is Black, at 69% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 17% White, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

Across the wider county, Charleston County reports that median household earnings sit near $88,494, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Charleston County's 98 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,933 students), Stono Park Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Carolina Voyager Charter, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Stono Park Elementary.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Stono Park Elementary's enrollment has fell 9% since 2018, when it stood at 371 (now 337). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 81% to 69%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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