James Island Charter isn't a real "Charter" school. It's still the zoned public
school, and though kids can apply to come here, we don't (and can't) recruit for athletics. We have an IB program, and I've had a couple of players who were in the IB program, but anyone who has ever tried to have a conversation with my players knows we aren't
Academic Magnet (a running joke on the team). In the end, the added number of students has only increased our school population without aiding athletics and kept us in a higher classification.
As has been mentioned many times, a more accurate means of classification would be a ratio of student population to number of student-athletes.
