Summerville Prep

Summerville Prep is a primary school of average-sized scale in Summerville, South Carolina, operated by Limestone Charters Association, caters to 595 students in grades K through 8.

Limestone Charters Association comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 7,387 students; Summerville Prep is among them.

On the student-mix side, Summerville Prep logs that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 28% Black, 10% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Dorchester County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Summerville Prep logs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Dorchester County put the typical household earns roughly $78,198 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Dorchester County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,832 students), of which Summerville Prep is one.

The closest other public school is Flowertown Elementary, roughly 1.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Summerville Prep.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site. Summerville Prep operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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