Lucy Garrett Beckham High, 1560 Mathis Ferry Road: ninth through 12th grade, 1,757 students in 2024-25, rated Excellent on the state report card.

Last checked Oct. 16, 2026. Sources: the school’s website; the school’s administration page; Charleston County School District’s school lookup tool, 2026-27 academic calendar and 2026-27 bell schedule; the S.C. Department of Education’s 2024-25 report card data files; the federal NCES school directory; the South Carolina High School League’s 2026-28 reclassification.

Lucy Garrett Beckham High, usually called Lucy Beckham, is Charleston County School District’s other high school in Mount Pleasant, on Mathis Ferry Road. It was rated Excellent, with 79 points, on South Carolina’s 2024-25 report card.

Who to call
Address 1560 Mathis Ferry Road, Mount Pleasant, SC 29464
Phone 843-953-2900
Grades 9 to 12
District Charleston County School District
School hours 8:30 a.m. to 3:35 p.m.
State school ID 1001121

The school’s website gives 843-953-2900 as its main number; the 2023-24 federal directory still lists 843-856-6790.

Principal

Principal Anna Dassing, according to the school’s administration page.

Enrollment and teachers

  • State count: 1,757 students in the 2024-25 school year, according to the state’s report card data.
  • Federal count: 1,763 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 101 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That is about 17 students per teacher.

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: Excellent, 79 points. On the state’s high school scale, Excellent 67 to 100, Good 60 to 66, Average 51 to 59, Below Average 40 to 50 and Unsatisfactory 39 and below.

Indicator 2024-25 rating
Academic achievement Excellent
Preparing for success Excellent
Graduation rate Excellent
College and career readiness Excellent
English learners’ progress Average
School climate Excellent
  • Four-year graduation rate: 95.5% in 2025, after 91.6% in 2024 and 92% in 2023 (Charleston County School District: 90.6% in 2025)
  • College or career ready: 90.7% of the 2025 graduating class (district: 84.8%)
  • End-of-course tests, share scoring A, B or C: English 89.3%, Algebra 83.9%, Biology 73.1% and U.S. History 73.9%
  • AP and dual enrollment: 52.4% of the 2025 graduating class met the state’s college-ready mark through AP exams and 31.7% through dual-enrollment courses

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

Check an address with the district’s school lookup tool, which the district links from its lookup page.

In the district’s zone layers, the Lucy Beckham zone covers the southern and central parts of Mount Pleasant. It takes in most of the Moultrie Middle zone, fed by James B. Edwards Elementary, Mt. Pleasant Academy and most of the Mamie P. Whitesides Elementary zone, plus the part of the Laing Middle zone fed by Belle Hall Elementary.

We did not find a published feeder list on the district’s site, so these pairings come from the district’s own zone layers. The 2026-27 elementary zones in those layers match 2025-26 for every Mount Pleasant zone, and we found no rezoning approved by the board that changes them; where a zone is split, the street address decides.

Programs

The district’s East Cooper Center for Advanced Studies, 900 Warrior Way, beside Wando, “proudly serves high school students from both Lucy Beckham and Wando High Schools,” its website says, with “four Academies and seventeen specialized Programs.” Students attend part of the day. The center’s main number is 843-856-5800.

Calendar and school hours

Lucy Garrett Beckham High follows Charleston County School District’s 2026-27 calendar. Coming dates from the academic calendar (PDF):

  • Tuesday, Nov. 3: Election Day, schools closed
  • Nov. 23-24: no school; both are weather make-up days if the district needs them
  • Nov. 25-27: fall break
  • Friday, Dec. 18: half day
  • Dec. 21 to Jan. 1: winter break; students return Tuesday, Jan. 5

School hours: 8:30 a.m. to 3:35 p.m., with arrival from 8:05 a.m., according to the district’s 2026-27 bell schedule (PDF). Early-release days end at 1:30 p.m. and half days at 11:45 a.m.

Sports and activities

Lucy Beckham is a Class 4A school in Region 6 for the South Carolina High School League’s 2026-28 classification, with Beaufort, Bluffton, Colleton County, Hilton Head Island and May River, according to the SCHSL reclassification lookup.

The school’s athletics website, lucybeckhamathletics.rst7.rschooltoday.com, linked from its home page, lists teams in baseball, basketball, cheer, cross country, dance, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball and wrestling.

Fall schedules and results are in our Friday night football guide and on our scoreboard.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Lucy Garrett Beckham High serve?

Lucy Garrett Beckham High serves ninth through 12th grade, according to the state’s 2024-25 report card.

What is Lucy Garrett Beckham High’s school rating?

Lucy Garrett Beckham High was rated Excellent, with 79 points, on South Carolina’s 2024-25 school report card, the latest the state has published.

Which middle schools feed Lucy Beckham High?

In Charleston County School District’s zone layers, most of the Moultrie Middle zone (James B. Edwards, Mt. Pleasant Academy and most of Whitesides Elementary) and the Belle Hall part of Laing Middle feed Lucy Beckham.

What time does Lucy Garrett Beckham High start?

The school day runs 8:30 a.m. to 3:35 p.m., with arrival from 8:05 a.m., according to Charleston County School District’s 2026-27 bell schedule.