Breaking Legs

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

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

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

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

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

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, […]

Beyond the Classroom

WINNSBORO – Renowned child advocacy artist George E. Miller II served as Fairfield Middle School’s (FMS) Artist in Residence for two weeks planning and creating a mural with thirteen students to showcase their talents beyond the classroom. Ideas for the mural were created by the students and sent to Mr. Miller, who compiled the ideas […]

BHS in top 20% of SC SAT test takers

BLYTHEWOOD – While Blythewood High School seniors taking the SAT hovered just below the state average, the school ranked near the top in the number of test takers. Blythewood High placed in the top 20 statewide at 71.1 percent, ranking 16th out of 230 schools, with 335 of 471 seniors taking the test, according to […]

FCHS gains 60 points on SAT, lags behind SC

WINNSBORO — Fairfield Central High School saw a noticeable increase from 2017 in its SAT results, leaping more than 60 points, according to figures released last week by the S.C. Department of Education. Only one in five Fairfield County seniors, however, took the SAT in 2018, and those who did take the test averaged more […]

Rent cost, no contract muddle ‘village’

WINNSBORO – Taxpayer money, not previously mentioned by the Fairfield County School District Foundation, will help subsidize a ‘teacher village,’ a proposed residential development intended to attract and retain teachers in the District, should the plan move forward. Under questioning by Council members, Foundation and District officials also confirmed that they do not yet have […]

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