Public school / High
Fort Dorchester High
North Charleston, South Carolina
- NCES ID
- 450201000007
- District
- Dorchester 02
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Fort Dorchester High is a public high school in North Charleston, South Carolina, run by Dorchester 02. It enrols 2,312 students — the 1031st 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
2,312
Teachers
129.0
Students per teacher
17.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
62.5%
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 Dorchester 02
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.
- 1Summerville High3,308 students
- 2Ashley Ridge High2,542 students
- 3Fort Dorchester High2,312 students
- 4Sand Hill Elementary1,133 students
- 5Beech Hill Elementary1,101 students
- 6Oakbrook Middle1,006 students
- 7Charles B. Dubose Middle950 students
- 8William M. Reeves Elementary914 students
- Enrollment+307.8%
- Teachers+230.8%
- Students per teacher+26.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−31.0%
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