Philip Simmons Middle, 2065 Seven Sticks Drive: sixth through eighth grade, 473 students in 2024-25, rated Good 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.

Philip Simmons Middle is a Berkeley County School District middle 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 Elementary. Its website calls it the “Home of the Iron Horses.” It was rated Good, with 52 points, on South Carolina’s 2024-25 report card.

Who to call
Address 2065 Seven Sticks Drive, Wando, SC 29492
Phone 843-471-2590
Grades 6 to 8
District Berkeley County School District
School hours 7:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.
State school ID 0801055

Principal

Principal Charla Groves, according to the school’s staff directory.

Enrollment and teachers

  • State count: 473 students in the 2024-25 school year, according to the state’s report card data.
  • Federal count: 454 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That is about 16 students per teacher.

The state’s 2024-25 report card lists grades 5 to 8; Berkeley County’s 2025-26 and 2026-27 zone layers list the school as sixth through eighth grade, with fifth grade at Philip Simmons Elementary.

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: Good, 52 points. On the state’s middle school scale, Excellent 56 to 100, Good 48 to 55, Average 36 to 47, Below Average 29 to 35 and Unsatisfactory 28 and below.

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

On the spring 2025 SC READY tests in grades 6 to 8, 69.2% of students met or exceeded expectations in English language arts and 39.4% in math; on the state science test, 54.2% 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 Philip Simmons Middle zone is fed by the Philip Simmons Elementary zone and a small Cainhoy Elementary area, and feeds Philip Simmons High. Daniel Island children stay at Daniel Island School through eighth grade.

Calendar and school hours

Philip Simmons Middle 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 Middle serve?

Philip Simmons Middle serves sixth through eighth grade in 2026-27, according to Berkeley County’s zone layers.

What is Philip Simmons Middle’s school rating?

Philip Simmons Middle was rated Good, with 52 points, on South Carolina’s 2024-25 school report card, the latest the state has published.

Which high school does Philip Simmons Middle feed into?

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

What time does Philip Simmons Middle 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.