Best Elementary Schools in South Carolina for Female Students

Check out our new feature available only on SchoolDigger: rankings for different groups of students in South Carolina!

Every year, the South Carolina Department of Education shares test results for various student groups in each school. We use these results to find out which schools do best for each group and list them from the best to the worst.

Additionally, we also compare the performance of the subgroup to the performance of the school as a whole. This makes it easy to see if, for example, Female students are overperforming or underperforming their peers in each school.

Year after year, SchoolDigger is always the first to publish South Carolina test scores and rankings. Other sites use stale test score data that are several years old! Be in the know with the very latest performance metrics.

The list is updated annually upon the release of the SC READY test scores by the South Carolina Department of Education. The most recent update was on Tuesday, September 2, 2025.

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School														Students/Teachers											Per Pupil Expenditures (2025)							Ranking (Female vs All Students - 2025)					ID
Rank (of 581)	School	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Disc Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Per Pupil Expenditures: Total	Personnel from Federal Funds	Non-Personnel from Federal Funds	Total from Federal Funds	Personnel from State and Local Funds	Non-Personnel from State and Local Funds	Total from State and Local Funds	Statewide Rank Percentile (Female)	Statewide Rank Percentile (All Students)	Rank Percentile Difference from All Students	SchoolDigger Rating (Female)	SchoolDigger Rating (All Students)	ID
581	Hardeeville Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	150 Hurricane Alley	Hardeeville	29927	Jasper County	Jasper 01	No	No	No	Yes	(843) 310-1888	691	33	20.9		40 (5.8%)	172 (24.9%)	468 (67.7%)	3 (0.4%)	2 (0.3%)	0 (0.0%)	6 (0.9%)								0.0%	0.5%	0.47%			450252001395
580	Matilda F. Dunston Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	1825 Remount Road	North Charleston	29406	Charleston County	Charleston 01	No	No	No	Yes	(843) 745-7109	569	44	12.9		36 (6.3%)	147 (25.8%)	362 (63.6%)	2 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	22 (3.9%)	$21,324	$3,979	$1,821	$5,801	$12,531	$2,992	$15,523	0.2%	0.6%	0.45%			450144000224
579	Clear Dot Charter School	Public, Charter, Alternative	PK, KG-11	2015 Marion Street	Columbia	29201	Richland County	Charter Institute at Erskine	Yes	No	No	Yes	(803) 567-3075	474	42	11.2		55 (11.6%)	383 (80.8%)	15 (3.2%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	20 (4.2%)	$12,810	$2,409	$1,018	$3,427	$6,273	$3,110	$9,383	0.3%	4.4%	4.03%			450390901717
578	Carolus Online Academy	Public, Virtual, Charter, Alternative	K-12	101 Westpark Boulevard Suite C	Columbia	29210	Lexington County	School Public Charter School District	Yes	(n/a)	Yes	(n/a)	(866) 968-7512	1,786	64	27.9		846 (47.4%)	633 (35.4%)	155 (8.7%)	4 (0.2%)	19 (1.1%)	7 (0.4%)	122 (6.8%)	$9,912	$67	$173	$240	$2,607	$7,064	$9,671	0.5%	0.2%	0.36%			450390101780
577	A. C. Corcoran Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	8585 Vistavia Road	North Charleston	29406	Charleston County	Charleston 01	No	No	No	Yes	(843) 764-2218	743	49	15		58 (7.8%)	361 (48.6%)	251 (33.8%)	3 (0.4%)	1 (0.1%)	4 (0.5%)	65 (8.7%)	$20,324	$4,489	$1,620	$6,109	$11,586	$2,629	$14,215	0.7%	1.1%	0.41%			450144000199
576	Ford Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	601 Lucas Avenue	Laurens	29360	Laurens County	Laurens 55	No	No	No	Yes	(864) 984-3986	423	42	10		121 (28.6%)	93 (22.0%)	186 (44.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	23 (5.4%)	$15,791	$1,436	$456	$1,893	$11,084	$2,813	$13,898	0.9%	4.2%	3.36%			450261000693
575	Richmond Drive Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	1162 Richmond Drive	Rock Hill	29732	York County	York 03	No	No	No	Yes	(803) 981-1930	467	39	11.9		53 (11.3%)	231 (49.5%)	144 (30.8%)	19 (4.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	20 (4.3%)	$15,283	$1,288	$991	$2,280	$11,682	$1,321	$13,003	1.0%	3.4%	2.40%			450387001139
574	Sampit Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	69 Woodland Avenue	Georgetown	29440	Georgetown County	Georgetown 01	No	No	No	Yes	(843) 527-4411	270	24	11.2		83 (30.7%)	162 (60.0%)	19 (7.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	6 (2.2%)	$17,921	$1,287	$1,574	$2,861	$13,035	$2,026	$15,060	1.2%	5.2%	3.95%			450228000481
573	Pepperhill Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	3300 Creola Road	North Charleston	29420	Charleston County	Charleston 01	No	No	No	Yes	(843) 767-5905	453	34	13.4		25 (5.5%)	214 (47.2%)	185 (40.8%)	3 (0.7%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	26 (5.7%)	$24,397	$5,692	$2,064	$7,756	$13,563	$3,078	$16,641	1.4%	1.7%	0.34%			450144000227
572	Luther L. Vaughan Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	192 Vaughan Road	Gaffney	29341	Cherokee County	Cherokee 01	No	No	No	Yes	(864) 206-6054	399	34	11.9		101 (25.3%)	161 (40.4%)	126 (31.6%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	11 (2.8%)	$5,850	$1,627	$818	$2,445	$2,368	$1,037	$3,405	1.5%	0.8%	0.77%			450150000282

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About our rankings:

Schooldigger calculates school rankings based on SC READY English Language Arts, SC READY Mathematics, SC READY Science test scores released by the South Carolina Department of Education.
These rankings were last updated on September 2, 2025, and are based on the most recent test scores available. We update rankings as we receive new test scores from the South Carolina Department of Education, usually on a yearly basis.
Our sources of data include the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education and the South Carolina Department of Education.
For more information about our ranking process, please see our Ranking FAQ. Details about our methodology are here.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the South Carolina Department of Education.