High · South Carolina
Fort Dorchester High
Fort Dorchester High, a public high school in North Charleston, South Carolina: grades 9–12, 2,344 students, 17.4 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Dorchester 02.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 2,344
- Teachers (FTE)
- 134.8
- Students per teacher
- 17.4
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 69% of high schools in South Carolina
Median 15.5 · 248 schools compared
More students per teacher than 70% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 95% of high schools in South Carolina
Median 741 · 250 schools compared
Larger than 96% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Area
- Midsize city
- Run by
- Dorchester 02
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Dorchester 02.
Location
- Address
- 8500 Patriot Boulevard, North Charleston, SC 29420
- Phone
- (843)760-4450
- City or town
- North Charleston
- County
- Dorchester County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
R. B. Stall HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 2,135 | 15.5 |
Palmetto Scholars AcademyCharter | 6–12 | 507 | 14.5 |
| 11–12 | 117 | 23.4 | |
Palmetto ExcelCharter | 9–12 | 0 | — |
| 9–12 | 169 | 23.5 | |
| 9–12 | 619 | 42.7 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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