Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5
James Island Elementary, Charleston, SC
James Island Elementary is a public elementary school in Charleston, part of Charleston 01 School District. It enrolled 580 students in 2024-25, with 14.1 students per full-time teacher.
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 580
- Teachers (FTE)
- 41.0
- Students per teacher
- 14.1
- Grades
- PK to 5
This school's ratio is 1.1 higher than the district figure of 13.0. The South Carolina average across schools is 14.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
This school14.1
District13.0
South Carolina14.4
United States15.3
School details
- Address
- 1872 Grimball Road, Charleston, SC 29412
- Phone
- (843)762-8240
- District
- Charleston 01 School District
- County
- Charleston County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 450144000830
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Charleston 01 School District
- Orange Grove Charter School 1,170 students
- Jennie Moore Elementary 993 students
- Carolina Park Elementary 931 students
- Ladson Elementary 907 students
- Stiles Point Elementary 866 students
- Angel Oak Elementary 828 students
- Meeting Street Brentwood 806 students
- St. Andrew's School of Math and Science 769 students
- James B. Edwards Elementary 767 students
- Mamie P. Whitesides Elementary 767 students
- Pinehurst Elementary 758 students
- A. C. Corcoran Elementary 743 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Charleston
- Daniel Island School Berkeley 01 School District
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.