Moultrie Middle

Moultrie Middle is a highly regarded public school in Mount Pleasant, SC, serving 1,130 students in grades 6-8 within the Charleston 01 school district.

Moultrie Middle consistently ranks among the top 5% of middle schools in South Carolina, earning a 5-star rating every year for the past decade. In the most recent school year, it ranked 15th out of 325 middle schools statewide. Academic proficiency rates are exceptionally strong across all subjects, with math scores roughly double the state average in every grade level. For example, 82% of 6th graders are proficient in math compared to 41% statewide. The school also achieves near-perfect results on the Algebra 1 end-of-course exam, with 99.3% proficiency. What truly sets Moultrie apart is its uniform success across all student groups—it ranks 2nd in the state for supporting students with disabilities and 3rd for gifted students, while also ranking in the 96th percentile for students from low-income families. This consistency is rare and indicates that the school's success is systemic, not limited to specific programs or populations.

Moultrie is part of an extraordinary cluster of high-performing schools in Mount Pleasant, including Thomas C. Cario Middle (ranked 7th) and Laing Middle (ranked 16th), all within a few miles of each other. Notably, Moultrie achieves these results with a per-student spending of $16,249—significantly less than lower-performing schools in the same district like Simmons Pinckney Middle, which spends $36,562 per student yet ranks 333rd. The school also maintains a lower chronic absenteeism rate (14.5%) than the district average (20.5%). While its student-teacher ratio of 17.4:1 is higher than some peers, Moultrie's outcomes demonstrate that teacher quality and school culture matter more than class size alone.