Langston Charter Middle, 1950 Woodruff Road: a tuition-free public charter for grades 6 to 8, 445 students in 2025-26, admission by lottery.

Last checked Oct. 16, 2026. Sources: the school’s website, enrollment page, staff page and calendar; the S.C. Department of Education’s 2025-26 report card data; the federal NCES school directory; the Census Bureau’s city boundary.

Langston Charter Middle is a tuition-free public charter school for sixth through eighth grade on Woodruff Road, with a Greenville mailing address but outside the city limits, according to the Census Bureau’s boundaries. It is “a public charter school in the Charter Institute at Erskine District,” its website says, and it admits students by lottery. It was rated Excellent, with 65 points, on South Carolina’s 2025-26 report card.

Who to call
Address 1950 Woodruff Road, Greenville, SC 29607
Phone 864-286-9700
Grades 6 to 8
Type Public charter, Charter Institute at Erskine
City of Greenville Outside the city limits
Tuition None for South Carolina residents
State school ID 4801045

Principal

Principal David Wooten, according to the school’s staff page, which says he has led the school since 2021.

Enrollment and teachers

  • State count: 445 students in the 2025-26 school year, according to the state’s report card data.
  • Federal count: 470 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That is about 19 students per teacher.
  • The school says it “maintains an enrollment of 450 students” and enrolled 180 new sixth graders by lottery for 2026-27. The federal directory files Langston under Greenville County Schools; the school itself says it belongs to the Charter Institute at Erskine.

State report card

South Carolina rates every public school each year as Excellent, Good, Average, Below Average or Unsatisfactory. 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, according to the state’s report card site and the Education Oversight Committee’s accountability manuals.

2025-26 rating: Excellent, 65 points. On the state’s middle school scale, Excellent 56 to 100, Good 48 to 55, Average 36 to 47, Below Average 29 to 35 and Unsatisfactory 28 and below. An Excellent rating means school performance “substantially exceeds the criteria to ensure all students meet the Profile of the SC Graduate.”

Indicator 2025-26 rating
Academic achievement Excellent
Preparing for success Excellent
Student progress Average
School climate Excellent
  • SC READY 2026, share meeting or exceeding expectations: English language arts 91.3% and math 84.7%
  • SC PASS science, meeting or exceeding: 89.8%

The full report card, with results by student group, teacher data, school safety and spending, is on the state’s SC School Report Cards site. The state published the 2025-26 ratings in October 2026.

Admission

Langston has no attendance zone. “There are no academic requirements for enrollment,” and because the school “has always received more applications than there are available openings,” it “admits all students through a lottery process,” with a lottery for each grade, according to its enrollment page. Each lottery list becomes the waiting list for that grade.

For the 2027-28 school year, the page lists two requirements to enter the lottery: attend a school tour or a lottery information meeting, and submit the application by 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30. Remaining dates:

  • School tours, about 30 minutes, starting in the front office, no appointment: 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20; 8:45 a.m. Friday, Oct. 23; 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27; and 8:45 a.m. Friday, Oct. 30
  • Lottery information meetings, about an hour, at Woodruff Road Christian Church on Bell Road, across from the school’s entrance: 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, and 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29
  • Lottery: Thursday, Nov. 12, at 4:15 p.m., with results posted on the school’s front doors; enrollment paperwork goes to selected students by Monday, Nov. 16

Calendar and school hours

Langston sets its own school calendar, posted on its calendar page.

More

Frequently asked questions

What grades does Langston Charter Middle serve?

Langston Charter Middle serves sixth, seventh and eighth grade, according to its website.

How do you get into Langston Charter Middle?

By lottery. Families must attend a school tour or a lottery information meeting and apply by 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, 2026, for the 2027-28 lottery, which is held Thursday, Nov. 12. There are no academic requirements.

What is Langston Charter Middle’s state report card rating?

Langston Charter Middle was rated Excellent, with 65 points, on South Carolina’s 2025-26 school report card.