Best Elementary Schools in South Carolina for Gifted and Talented 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, Gifted and Talented 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 Monday, August 19, 2024.

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School															Students/Teachers											Per Pupil Expenditures (2023)							Ranking (Gifted and Talented vs All Students - 2024)
ID	Rank (of 82)	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 (Gifted and Talented)	Statewide Rank Percentile (All Students)	Rank Percentile Difference from All Students	SchoolDigger Rating (Gifted and Talented)	SchoolDigger Rating (All Students)
450117001472	1	Daniel Island School	Public	K-8	2365 Daniel Island Drive	Charleston	29492	Berkeley County	Berkeley 01	No	No	No	No	(843) 471-2301	1,170	75	15.6	3.8%	1,024 (87.5%)	31 (2.6%)	39 (3.3%)	28 (2.4%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	48 (4.1%)	$10,428	$698	$543	$1,241	$7,709	$1,478	$9,187	98.8%	98.9%	0.12%
450231000492	2	Augusta Circle Elementary	Public	K-5	100 Winyah Street	Greenville	29605	Greenville County	Greenville 01	No	No	No	No	(864) 355-1200	557	35	16	11.5%	491 (88.2%)	37 (6.6%)	17 (3.1%)	5 (0.9%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	6 (1.1%)	$10,924	$924	$840	$1,764	$8,541	$619	$9,160	97.6%	99.5%	1.97%
450144000429	3	Charles Pinckney Elementary	Public	3-5	3300 Thomas Cario Boulevard	Mount Pleasant	29466	Charleston County	Charleston 01	No	No	No	No	(843) 856-4585	635	38	16.7	14.5%	543 (85.5%)	17 (2.7%)	32 (5.0%)	17 (2.7%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	25 (3.9%)	$12,155	$995	$966	$1,961	$7,976	$2,219	$10,195	96.3%	98.6%	2.25%
450390001535	4	Pleasant Knoll Elementary	Public	K-5	2346 Pleasant Road	Fort Mill	29708	York County	York 04	No	No	No	No	(803) 835-0090	827	63	13.1	15.7%	448 (54.2%)	65 (7.9%)	82 (9.9%)	177 (21.4%)	7 (0.8%)	2 (0.2%)	46 (5.6%)	$11,706	$644	$682	$1,325	$9,361	$1,020	$10,381	95.1%	96.1%	0.96%
450390000663	5	Orchard Park Elementary	Public	K-5	474 Third Baxter Street	Fort Mill	29708	York County	York 04	No	No	No	No	(803) 548-8170	555	48	11.5	9.4%	474 (85.4%)	19 (3.4%)	33 (5.9%)	2 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.2%)	26 (4.7%)	$11,652	$1,338	$525	$1,863	$8,666	$1,124	$9,790	93.9%	89.0%	4.87%
450144001457	6	Orange Grove Charter School	Public, Charter	PK, KG-8	1225 Orange Branch Road	Charleston	29407	Charleston County	Charleston 01	Yes	No	No	No	(843) 763-1520	1,167	74	15.7	22.9%	936 (80.2%)	110 (9.4%)	52 (4.5%)	27 (2.3%)	0 (0.0%)	4 (0.3%)	38 (3.3%)	$12,178	$1,172	$540	$1,712	$8,835	$1,631	$10,466	92.7%	99.1%	6.38%
450231000540	7	Woodland Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	1730 Gibb Shoals Road	Greer	29650	Greenville County	Greenville 01	No	No	No	No	(864) 355-0400	1,251	74	16.9	49.4%	666 (53.2%)	106 (8.5%)	278 (22.2%)	146 (11.7%)	7 (0.6%)	2 (0.2%)	46 (3.7%)	$9,696	$835	$573	$1,408	$7,730	$557	$8,288	91.5%	92.6%	1.17%
450231001336	8	Plain Elementary	Public	K-5	506 Neely Ferry Road	Simpsonville	29681	Greenville County	Greenville 01	No	No	No	No	(864) 355-7700	932	57	16.4	54.2%	581 (62.3%)	161 (17.3%)	106 (11.4%)	10 (1.1%)	1 (0.1%)	1 (0.1%)	72 (7.7%)	$10,367	$1,222	$774	$1,996	$7,822	$549	$8,371	90.2%	84.6%	5.60%
450231001517	9	Ruldolph G. Gordon School at Jones Mill	Public	K-8	1507 Scuffletown Road	Simpsonville	29681	Greenville County	Greenville 01	No	No	No	No	(864) 355-0200	1,698	104	16.4	35.0%	1,254 (73.9%)	195 (11.5%)	136 (8.0%)	43 (2.5%)	4 (0.2%)	1 (0.1%)	65 (3.8%)	$9,743	$918	$553	$1,470	$7,613	$659	$8,272	89.0%	89.2%	0.16%
450387001714	10	Cherry Park Elementary School of Language Immersion	Public	K-5	1835 Eden Terrace	Rock Hill	29730	York County	York 03	No	No	No	No	(803) 985-2255	783	46	16.9	10.6%	417 (53.3%)	155 (19.8%)	160 (20.4%)	7 (0.9%)	8 (1.0%)	0 (0.0%)	36 (4.6%)								87.8%	92.3%	4.51%

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About our rankings:

Schooldigger calculates school rankings based on SC READY English Language Arts, SC READY Mathematics test scores released by the South Carolina Department of Education.
These rankings were last updated on August 19, 2024, 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.