Limestone University's charter school district will wind down its operations over the next 13 months, and all of the schools it oversees will need to find new sponsors for the 2026-2027 school year.

The Limestone Charter Association, a publicly-funded nonprofit that oversees 13 charter schools across the state and has approved more than a dozen others that have yet to open, has entered a "closure protocol" in wake of the 179-year-old private Upstate college's recent decision to cease operations, Meka Childs, the S.C. Department of Education's director of education choice and family engagement, explained Tuesday to the State Board of Education's Policy and Legislative Committee.

Most of Limestone's schools are in the Upstate and include Oceanside Collegiate in Mt. Pleasant and Legion Coll

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