Philip Simmons High, 3080 River Village Drive: ninth through 12th grade, 797 students in 2024-25, rated Excellent on the state report card.

Last checked Oct. 16, 2026. Sources: the school’s website; the school’s staff directory and contact page; 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; the South Carolina High School League’s 2026-28 reclassification.

Philip Simmons High is the Berkeley County School District high school for Daniel Island and Cainhoy, the Berkeley County parts of Charleston, on River Village Drive in Cainhoy. It was rated Excellent, with 71 points, on South Carolina’s 2024-25 report card.

Who to call
Address 3080 River Village Drive, Charleston, SC 29492
Phone 843-471-2960
Grades 9 to 12
District Berkeley County School District
School hours 9 a.m. to 4:05 p.m.
State school ID 0801056

Principal

Principal Latanya Butler, according to the school’s staff directory.

Enrollment and teachers

  • State count: 797 students in the 2024-25 school year, according to the state’s report card data.
  • Federal count: 809 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That is about 15 students per teacher.

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: Excellent, 71 points. On the state’s high school scale, Excellent 67 to 100, Good 60 to 66, Average 51 to 59, Below Average 40 to 50 and Unsatisfactory 39 and below.

Indicator 2024-25 rating
Academic achievement Average
Preparing for success Good
Graduation rate Excellent
College and career readiness Excellent
School climate Good
  • Four-year graduation rate: 91.4% in 2025, after 92.3% in 2024 and 92.9% in 2023 (district: 86.2% in 2025)
  • College or career ready: 82.2% of the 2025 graduating class (district: 65.6%)
  • End-of-course tests, share scoring A, B or C: English 80%, Algebra 45.7%, Biology 66.4% and U.S. History 57%
  • AP and dual enrollment: 36% of the 2025 graduating class met the state’s college-ready mark through AP exams and 30.5% through dual-enrollment courses

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 Philip Simmons High zone takes in Daniel Island School, kindergarten through eighth grade, and the Philip Simmons Elementary and Philip Simmons Middle zones, plus a small Cainhoy Elementary area. Those layers are the county’s school attendance zone service; the district does not publish a separate feeder list that we found.

Calendar and school hours

Philip Simmons High 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 9 a.m. to 4:05 p.m., with supervision from 8:30 a.m., according to Berkeley County School District’s 2026-27 bell schedule (PDF). Half days end at 12:50 p.m.; on a two-hour weather delay the day starts two hours later.

Sports and activities

Philip Simmons is a Class 2A school in Region 5 for the South Carolina High School League’s 2026-28 classification, with Academic Magnet, Battery Creek, Bridges Prep, Lake Marion, Timberland and Woodland, according to the SCHSL reclassification lookup.

Fall schedules and results are in our Friday night football guide and on our scoreboard.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Philip Simmons High serve?

Philip Simmons High serves ninth through 12th grade, according to the state’s 2024-25 report card.

What is Philip Simmons High’s school rating?

Philip Simmons High was rated Excellent, with 71 points, on South Carolina’s 2024-25 school report card, the latest the state has published.

Which schools feed Philip Simmons High?

In Berkeley County’s 2026-27 zone layers, Daniel Island School and Philip Simmons Middle feed Philip Simmons High, along with a small Cainhoy Elementary area.

What time does Philip Simmons High start?

Instruction runs 9 a.m. to 4:05 p.m., with supervision from 8:30 a.m., according to Berkeley County School District’s 2026-27 bell schedule.