Oceanside Collegiate Academy: admission, report card and calendar

Last checked Oct. 16, 2026. Sources: the school’s website; the school’s about page; the school’s admissions page and calendars page; 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.

Oceanside Collegiate Academy is a public charter high school on Faison Road. It is not part of Charleston County School District: its website carries the logo of the South Carolina Public Charter School District, a statewide district; the 2023-24 federal directory lists it under the Charter Institute at Erskine. On South Carolina’s 2024-25 report card it was rated Excellent, with 83 points.

Who to call

• Front office: 843-936-7128, 580 Faison Road
• School website: oceansidecollegiate.academy
• Applying: By lottery. Applications for 2027-28 open Jan. 1, 2027, and close Jan. 31, 2027; the lottery is scheduled for Feb. 15, 2027. Details: the school’s admissions page
• Not sure which school serves your address? Charleston County School District’s school lookup tool covers the zoned schools; Oceanside has no zone

Principal

Principal Kelly Linkenhoker, according to the school’s about page. The welcome letter there introduces the principal as new for the 2026-27 school year.

Enrollment and teachers

• State count: 623 students in the 2024-25 school year, according to the state’s report card data.
• Federal count: 653 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That is about 25 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, 83 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.

• Four-year graduation rate: 100% in 2025, after 99.4% in 2024 and 100% in 2023
• College or career ready: 97.6% of the 2025 graduating class
• End-of-course tests, share scoring A, B or C: English 91.9%, Algebra 80%, Biology 74.6% and U.S. History 59.6%
• AP and dual enrollment: 1.8% of the 2025 graduating class met the state’s college-ready mark through AP exams and 86.9% 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.

Admission

The school has no attendance zone; it fills seats by lottery. Its admissions page says:

• Applications for 2027-28 open Jan. 1, 2027, and must be completed by Jan. 31, 2027, to be in the lottery.
• Only current eighth graders or high school students may apply.
• If there are more applications than seats, the school holds a grade-by-grade lottery, scheduled for Feb. 15, 2027, with seat offers and waitlist positions emailed within two days.
• Siblings of current students or of graduates from the last six years, and children of employees, get priority, up to 20% of enrollment; siblings must still apply during the window.
• Applications after Jan. 31 go to the bottom of the waitlist in the order received. A waitlist for 2026-27 is open now.

The school holds information sessions it calls Shark Talks in December, January and February, and says everyone applying for 2027-28 should attend one.

Programs

In the state’s 2025 data, 86.9% of the graduating class met the state’s college-ready mark through dual-enrollment courses. The school publishes a 2026-27 dual-enrollment A-B schedule alongside its academic calendar.

Calendar and school hours

Oceanside sets its own calendar. The school posts its 2026-27 academic calendar and its 2026-27 dual-enrollment A-B schedule on its calendars page; the page notes that South Carolina law requires 180 instructional days and three built-in weather make-up days. Confirm break dates and the school day there, because Charleston County School District’s calendar and bell schedule do not cover the school.

Sports and activities

Oceanside Collegiate is a Class 3A school in Region 5 for the South Carolina High School League’s 2026-28 classification, with Bishop England, Georgetown, Hanahan and North Charleston, according to the SCHSL reclassification lookup.

The school’s website, which doubles as its athletics site, lists schedules for baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, 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.

More

• The school’s admissions page
• Every public school in Mount Pleasant, with zones and report cards
• Our Mount Pleasant schools guide for the district calendar, enrollment and the school board

Frequently asked questions

What grades does Oceanside Collegiate Academy serve?

Oceanside Collegiate Academy serves ninth through 12th grade, according to the state’s 2024-25 report card.

What is Oceanside Collegiate Academy’s school rating?

Oceanside Collegiate Academy was rated Excellent, with 83 points, on South Carolina’s 2024-25 school report card, the latest the state has published.

How do you get into Oceanside Collegiate Academy?

By lottery. Applications for 2027-28 open Jan. 1, 2027, and close Jan. 31, 2027; the lottery is scheduled for Feb. 15, 2027, according to the school’s admissions page.