Charlotte is a mountainous village in the Rural District in the Western Area of Sierra Leone[2].

Charlotte is located about twenty miles outside Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital.

[1] Charlotte was founded in 1817 provide accommodation for recaptives, liberated enslaved Africans, who had been brought to Freetown by the British Royal Navy West Africa Squadron.

[3] Princess Charlotte was the only daughter of George, Prince of Wales (later King George IV) and she was in the news in 1817 because she died unexpectedly that year after childbirth (the baby was, sadly stillborn), aged just 21.

The school, which was founded by the Church Missionary Society, moved to Kissy Road, Freetown in 1865.