Muller Road Middle School students who participated in the Honor Band, pictured right, are, from left: Emily Hedrick, Emily Bartsch, Madeline Phillips, Askia Rahman, Asia Spigner, Jace Risher, Avery Thye, Sofia Ruppert, Matthew Maco, Taylen Bradley-Goodwin, Hampton Hathaway, Mark Moak, Morgan Whitelow, Shariff Murphy, Cody Staniec, Ryan Leadbitter and Tessa Sheppard.
BMS students named to Honor Band
December 13, 2018 By
Blythewood Middle School students, pictured left, who were named to the Richland 2 Middle School Honor Band are, from left, Allyson Chipps, Karlese Sears, Hannah Spikes, Isaiah Gamez, Rhyan Harp, Mikayla Rembert, Kaden Wade, Emily Comisky, Jesse Woodley, Bobby Bond and Caleb Blanton (not pictured).
Advanced middle schoolers score well
December 6, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD/FAIRFIELD – Advanced middle school students who are able to take high school courses in the eighth grade also are subject to the end of course (EOC) tests. As a group, the mean or average scores for these high-achieving middle schoolers were better than the state and district averages and area high schools. Students in […]
R2 Chair McKie’s ‘lost’ ethics filings questioned
December 6, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Nearly a month after the November elections, two Richland 2 school board members still had not filed ethics disclosure forms required by state law, according to the South Carolina Ethics Commission. As of 1 p.m. Tuesday, the ethics commission’s online Statements of Economic Interest database listed all of the school board candidates who […]
Breaking Legs
December 6, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Blythewood High School’s drama class’s one-act play, Elephant’s Graveyard, has been named one of the two top state winners at SC Theater Association competition. BHS will now compete (for the fifth year) in the Southeastern Theater Conference in Knoxville, TN against the top two winners from 10 states. To pay for the trip, […]
A GEM at Muller Road Middle
December 6, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Muller Road Middle School’s head custodian, Richard Lowman (center), was named Service Solutions GEM Employee of the Year. Pictured with Lowman are Randy Bowers, left, and MRMS Principal Sean Bishton.
Fairfield EOC, Ready to Work scores decline, lag behind
November 29, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – Fairfield County schools experienced a setback in a key assessment that counts as 20 percent of a student’s final grade in core subjects, mirroring a similar slide in statewide results. The Fairfield County School District scores declined from spring, 2017 to spring, 2018 in three of four core subjects on the End-of-Course Examination […]
EOC scores: BHS up, WHS lags
November 29, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Blythewood High School students outscored both the Richland Two district average and the state average in a key assessment that counts as 20 percent of a student’s final grade in core subjects in statewide results. Westwood High School, however, experienced a setback in the same assessment, mirroring a similar slide in statewide results. […]
Teacher Village lacking site plan
November 15, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – As Fairfield County school officials press forward with plans to build a subdivision catering to teachers on property it owns behind the district office, those plans appear to be stymied until the property is rezoned. But the district has not yet submitted the required site plan for that rezoning to be initiated, according […]
BHS student published in academic journal
November 15, 2018 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Blythewood High School Junior Abhimanyu Sailesh will present two papers at the prestigious peer-reviewed 2018 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI’18) to be held in Las Vegas, Dec. 13 – 15. The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering) Journal, which will publish Sailesh’s papers in the fall of 2019, […]
