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How Philip Simmons Elementary compares
70% vs. 44% district avg
27 points above Berkeley 01
70% vs. 40% South Carolina avg
30 points above state average
525
Enrollment
15.4:1
Student:Teacher
70%
Proficiency Rate
21%
Free/Reduced Lunch

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About This School

Philip Simmons Elementary is a elementary school located in Wando, South Carolina. The school serves 525 students in grades -1-4. The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.4:1.

According to EDFacts assessment data, 70% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.

21% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

Philip Simmons Elementary is part of the Berkeley 01 in South Carolina.

How This School Compares

Philip Simmons Elementary has 525 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Berkeley 01 (825 students). Its 70% proficiency rate is 27 percentage points above the district average of 44%. Compared to the South Carolina state average of 40%, the school performs 30 points higher.

Frequently Asked Questions

Philip Simmons Elementary has 525 students enrolled in grades -1-4. The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.4:1.

According to EDFacts data, 70% of students at Philip Simmons Elementary meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.

Philip Simmons Elementary is part of the Berkeley 01 in Wando, South Carolina. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.

All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.

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School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.

this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment dataset. The detail above comes directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. public schools and districts.

The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.

For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.