Private K-8 School in Columbia, SC

Timmerman School:
The Timmerman School, located in Columbia, South Carolina, is a private school offering programs from three-year-old kindergarten to the eighth grade, and also provides an on-campus, after-school care program during the academic year. Since its founding in 1954, Timmerman has provided thousands of Columbia-area and Midlands children with the city's finest educational experience. In addition to the basic academic subjects, the school also provides exposure to and training in Spanish, computer science, the arts, and physical education.

Kindergarten through Grade 8 Programs:
At Timmerman, we are convinced of the mastery on the elementary level of the basic fundamentals of reading, writing skills, and mathematics. Phonics is the core of our highly successful reading program. We feel that basic mathematical concepts are integral to competing in the world of today and teach them with the same enthusiasm we use in instructing students in our new computer-filled technology lab.

3-5 year old Kindergarten:
- Phonics,
- Reading,
- Mathematics,
- Writing,
- Spanish,
- Computer Science,
- Art,
- Manners,
- Music,
- Physical Education

Grades 1-6:
- Reading
- Language
- Grammar
- Vocabulary
- Creative Writing
- Math
- Science
- Social Studies
- Spelling
- Spanish
- Computer Science
- Art
- Music
- Physical Education
- Library Science

Grades 7-8:
- Literature
- Grammar
- Vocabulary
- Composition
- Math or Algebra I
- Science
- History
- Geography
- Spanish or Spanish I
- Computer Science 
- Physical Education
- Library Science

It is important to note that a National Percentile of 76 means that our students scored higher than 76% of all students who take the Stanford in the United States.