Public school / Primary
Charles Pinckney Elementary
Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina
- NCES ID
- 450144000429
- District
- Charleston 01
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Charles Pinckney Elementary is a public primary school in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, run by Charleston 01. It enrols 635 students — the 23783rd largest of 1,288 public schools in South Carolina.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
635
Teachers
38.0
Students per teacher
16.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
14.5%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Charleston 01
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Wando High2,596 students
- 2Rb Stall High1,952 students
- 3West Ashley High1,935 students
- 4Lucy Garrett Beckham High1,673 students
- 5James Island Charter High1,589 students
- 6C. E. Williams Middle School for Creative and Scientific Art1,172 students
- 7Orange Grove Charter School1,167 students
- 8Meeting Street Elementary1,133 students
- Enrollment+12.0%
- Teachers−2.6%
- Students per teacher+18.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−84.0%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory