16. Northside Christian School
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Education
Telephone: (843) 797-2690
Address: 7800 Northside Dr.
Description: Northside is a Christian school offering a complete educational program for students age 3 through grade 12. In addition to general, college preparatory, and advanced placement instruction, a fifth-quarter summer program is available.
17. Northwood Academy
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Education
Telephone: (843) 764-2285
Address: 2263 Otranto Rd.
Description: Northwood Academy has small classes emphasizing the basics in both college preparatory and honors level courses for students in K4 through 12. The school offers Biblical integration in their curriculum, chorus, drama, and athletic programs.
18. Pinewood Preparatory School
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Education
Telephone: (843) 873-1643
Address: 1114 Old Orangeburg Rd.
Description: This coeducational, college preparatory day school enrolls 700 students in preschool through grade 12. It offers a full developmental preschool starting at age 3, a kindergarten program, and a challenging academic program for all students. A full athletic program and extracurricular activities, such as art and music studies, student literary productions, and special interest clubs, are available.
19. Porter-Gaud School
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Education
Telephone: (843) 402-4775
Address: 300 Albemarle Rd.
Description: Episcopal-affiliated Porter-Gaud is a coeducational, college preparatory school with students in grades 1 through 12. All of its graduates go on to 4-year colleges. In addition to its strong academic program, participation in a wide variety of sports and extracurricular activities is encouraged at all grade levels of this school on a West Ashley campus.
20. St. John’s Christian Academy
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Education
Telephone: (843) 761-8539
Address: 204 W. Main St.
Description: St. John’s (formerly known as Lord Berkeley Academy) is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for students age 3 through grade 12. In addition to academics, St. John’s offers extracurricular activities such as athletics and service clubs.
21. St. Paul’s Academy
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Education
Telephone: (843) 889-2702
Address: 5139 Gibson Rd.
Description: St. Paul’s Academy provides academic instruction in a nondenominational Christian atmosphere. Students age 2 through grade 8 attend classes on a 10-acre consolidated campus.
22. Trident Academy
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Education
Telephone: (843) 884-3494
Address: 1455 Wakendaw Rd.
Description: Trident Academy serves children age 5 through grade 12 who have been diagnosed with learning disabilities. The basic philosophy at Trident is to teach students to compensate for their differences in learning, allowing them to mainstream as quickly as possible.
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Education
24. Charleston Southern University
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Education
Telephone: (843) 863-7000
Address: 9200 University Blvd.
Description: When it was founded in 1964, Charleston Southern was called Baptist College—the only church-affiliated college in the area. Now elevated to university status and ranked as the second-largest church-affiliated university in the state, it offers 33 undergraduate degrees as well as master’s degrees in business administration, education, nursing, and criminal justice. The student body has grown from an enrollment of 528 to more than 3,000. Sponsored by the South Carolina Baptist Convention, Charleston Southern University remains committed to its mission of “promoting academic excellence in a Christian environment.”
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Education
Address: 171 Moultrie St.
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Education
Address: 66 George St.
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Education
Address: 171 Ashley Ave.
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Education
Address: 7000 Rivers Ave.
29. Main Library
City: Charleston, SC
Category: Education
Telephone: (843) 805-6930
Address: 68 Calhoun St.
Description: South Carolina licenses day-care centers only if they maintain standards in areas such as cleanliness, acceptable child-to-caregiver ratios, and adequate space-per-child allotments. There are three levels of regulation for child care facilities in the state.