Philip Simmons Elementary, 2095 Seven Sticks Drive: pre-K through fifth grade, 535 students in 2024-25, rated Average on the state report card.

Last checked Oct. 16, 2026. Sources: the school’s website; the school’s staff directory; Berkeley County’s 2026-27 school attendance zones, Berkeley County School District’s 2026-27 calendar and bell schedule; the S.C. Department of Education’s 2024-25 report card data files; the federal NCES school directory.

Philip Simmons Elementary is a Berkeley County School District school in Cainhoy, in the Berkeley County part of Charleston. Its mailing address says Wando; it sits inside Charleston city limits on the Census Bureau’s boundary map and shares a campus with Philip Simmons Middle. It was rated Average, with 51 points, on South Carolina’s 2024-25 report card.

Who to call
Address 2095 Seven Sticks Drive, Wando, SC 29492
Phone 843-471-2580
Grades Pre-K to 5
District Berkeley County School District
School hours 7:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.
State school ID 0801054

Principal

Principal Creighton Eddings, according to the school’s staff directory.

Enrollment and teachers

  • State count: 535 students in the 2024-25 school year, according to the state’s report card data.
  • Federal count: 545 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That is about 16 students per teacher.

The state’s 2024-25 report card lists pre-K to fourth grade; Berkeley County’s 2025-26 and 2026-27 zone layers list the school as pre-K through fifth grade.

State report card

South Carolina rates every public school each year as Excellent, Good, Average, Below Average or Unsatisfactory. An Excellent rating means “school performance substantially exceeds the criteria to ensure all students meet the Profile of the SC Graduate,” according to the state’s report card site. The overall rating is built from indicators such as academic achievement, preparing for success, student progress, English learners’ progress and school climate, with graduation rate and college and career readiness added for high schools.

2024-25 rating: Average, 51 points. On the state’s elementary scale, Excellent 61 to 100, Good 53 to 60, Average 42 to 52, Below Average 34 to 41 and Unsatisfactory 33 and below.

Indicator 2024-25 rating
Academic achievement Excellent
Preparing for success Average
Student progress Below Average
School climate Average

On the spring 2025 SC READY tests in grades 3 to 5, 80.1% of students met or exceeded expectations in English language arts and 70.8% in math; on the state science test, 56% did, according to the state’s report card data.

Across Berkeley County School District, in grades 3 to 8, the figures were 58.5% in English, 37.6% in math and 45.2% in science.

The full report card, with test results by group, teacher data, school safety and spending, is on the state’s SC School Report Cards site. The state publishes new ratings each fall.

Attendance zone

In Berkeley County’s 2026-27 zone layers, the county’s school attendance zone service, the Philip Simmons Elementary zone covers most of the Cainhoy part of the city and feeds Philip Simmons Middle and Philip Simmons High.

Calendar and school hours

Philip Simmons Elementary follows Berkeley County School District’s 2026-27 instructional calendar, which the board approved Oct. 20, 2025. Coming dates from the district’s calendar announcement:

  • Nov. 23-27: fall break
  • Dec. 21 to Jan. 5: winter break; students return Thursday, Jan. 7
  • Feb. 12 and March 12: set aside as inclement weather days
  • March 26 to April 2: spring break
  • Thursday, June 3: last day of school, a half day

School hours: instruction runs 7:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m., with supervision from 7:15 a.m., according to Berkeley County School District’s 2026-27 bell schedule (PDF). Half days end at 11:15 a.m.; on a two-hour weather delay the day starts two hours later.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Philip Simmons Elementary serve?

Philip Simmons Elementary serves pre-K through fifth grade in 2026-27, according to Berkeley County’s zone layers.

What is Philip Simmons Elementary’s school rating?

Philip Simmons Elementary was rated Average, with 51 points, on South Carolina’s 2024-25 school report card, the latest the state has published.

Which high school does Philip Simmons Elementary feed into?

In Berkeley County’s zone layers, the Philip Simmons Elementary zone feeds Philip Simmons Middle and then Philip Simmons High.

What time does Philip Simmons Elementary start?

Instruction runs 7:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m., with supervision from 7:15 a.m., according to Berkeley County School District’s 2026-27 bell schedule.