Chapin High School varsity cheerleader Sarah Miller has been named the South Carolina High School League (SCHSL) Division 5A Cheerleader of the Year. “I’m so honored to receive this award and couldn’t be more grateful to have been on a team with the hardest working group of girls I know,”Continue Reading
Lexington-Richland School District has announced its policy for free and reduced price meals for children served in schools under the National School Lunch program and the school breakfast program. School officials have adopted the following household size and income criteria for determining eligibility: Household size and income guidelines for freeContinue Reading
School District Five of Lexington & Richland Counties had 588 students earn an AP Scholar designation by the College Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college-level Advanced Placement Program (AP) Exams. “I am enormously proud of the students and teachers in District Five for their success onContinue Reading
Blaisdell Aplin, recent graduate of Dutch Fork High School and daughter of Susan and Ben Aplin, is the recipient of PAGE Five’s annual $1,000 merit scholarship. She will be attending the South Carolina Honors College at the University of South Carolina where she will major in business. She also plansContinue Reading
A Lexington-Richland School District Five teacher has been named a Professional Development Schools (PDS) Doctoral Fellow through the University of South Carolina (UofSC) College of Education. Charity Simmons (Irmo High School) is the most recent School District Five teacher chosen for the doctoral fellowship aimed to support practicing teachers andContinue Reading
Several Lexington-Richland School District Five schools were recognized for their conservation efforts through the Green Steps Schools program. Irmo High School International School for the Arts was named the 2020 Overall School of the Year, and also their school volunteer Linda Byars was named the Green Steps Mentor of theContinue Reading
Lexington-Richland School District Five has named longtime administrator Erin Doty the new principal of CrossRoads Intermediate School. She was approved for her new post during a school board meeting July 13. Doty previously served as the assistant principal of instruction at Irmo Middle School. She also served as assistant principalContinue Reading
Lexington-Richland School District Five has set a return date of July 27 to resume on-campus school sports workouts. The workouts will be phased in over the next three weeks and student athletes will return to workouts based on the sports they play. The first group to return will be fallContinue Reading
By CT McDonald The South Carolina High School League’s executive committee adopted a plan Wednesday, July 15 that would get fall sports started in the next few weeks, and would also be flexible enough to adjust, if necessary, according to the realities of the ongoing virus pandemic. In a JulyContinue Reading