A Lexington-Richland School District Five student won an award in the 2022 Magnet Schools of America Poster Contest. Layla Young, a seventh grader at Irmo Middle School International Academic Magnet, received third place in the middle school level in the nationwide competition. The contest highlights and promotes magnet schools acrossContinue Reading
Two Lexington-Richland School District Five teachers have received scholarships from Delta Kappa Gamma Society (DKG) International. DKG is an organization of educational leaders who promote professional and personal growth of women educators. Kaylee Susong is the recipient of a $1,000 scholarship. Susong is a second-year kindergarten teacher at Nursery RoadContinue Reading
Lexington-Richland School District Five announced its new Teacher of the Year and Support Employee of the Year during a May 2 ceremony. Elisa Westfall, an English teacher at CrossRoads Intermediate School, was named School District Five’s 2022-2023 Teacher of the Year during the district’s Employee Recognition Program. Katlyn Krumrey, aContinue Reading
Fifteen students from Dutch Fork High School were recently named the winners of the Theta Tau Professional Engineering Fraternity of the University of South Carolina Rube Goldberg Invention Competition. The contest was developed from the creative cartoons of William Heath Robinson and Pulitzer Prize winning Ruben Lucious Goldberg. Both ofContinue Reading
Lexington-Richland School District Five received the keys to a new electric school bus on Friday. School District Five is one of four districts in the state to receive the state-of-the-art, Proterra equipped, Thomas Built bus. The district was selected to receive the bus after a student entered the “Kids Ride Clean” writingContinue Reading
Harbison West Elementary School hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate new upgrades to the school playgrounds. Both the kindergarten and elementary playground received new sun canopies and new play equipment was installed for the kindergarten recess area. “Recess is an important part of the school day where kids can interactContinue Reading
School District Five of Lexington and Richland Counties is offering a Virtual Community Forum to present information and receive input about the proposed bond referendum. Superintendent Dr. Akil E. Ross, Sr., will present the options to be considered by the Board of Trustees and will answer questions from attendees. TheContinue Reading
Over two dozen students from the Center for Advanced Technical Studies (The Center) competed in the South Carolina Technology Student Association (TSA) Conference in March. Students representing engineering disciplines, digital art and media production, machine tool, as well as the architecture program placed in all of their respective competitions. TheContinue Reading
Lexington-Richland School District Five teacher, Amy Medlock-Greene, has been selected from a national pool of applicants as one of thirty-six participants for Session I of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) program “As Freedom Grows: Legacy of Early African American & the Gullah-Geechee People,” being held from July 10-16,Continue Reading
Seven Oaks Elementary School MEDIA Magnet has received a $2,968.00 Arts Teacher Support (ATS) grant from the South Carolina Art Commission. The ATC grant is to support innovation in arts classrooms by helping arts teachers acquire supplies, materials, professional development, and tools/expertise. Angela McBride and Crista Bendenbaugh wrote and collaboratedContinue Reading
Students receive report cards each quarter, as well as interim report cards in the middle of each quarter. A student’s report card provides a numeric score of competency in each subject area and is often considered a predictor of future success. However, a student’s report card does not describe whetherContinue Reading