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Dale Jacobs, a teacher at Lower Richland High School, was recently named 2018 Outstanding Biology Teacher in South Carolina by the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT).

Dreher High School has been named a Silver Medal winner in the U. S. News & World Report “Best High Schools” recognition program. The national program ranked Dreher as the 13th best high school in South Carolina, the best in Columbia, and #1958 nationally.

Richland One’s Office of Student Transportation Services will hold a bus driver applicant search June 5–6 at the Richland Library, 1431 Assembly Street. Staff will be at the library from 5–8 p.m. June 5 and 4–8 p.m. June 6.

For more information email keith.terry@richland one.org or call 803-231-7002.

The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) recognized five Richland Two Institute of Innovation (R2i2) students for their Advanced Career Clean Energy Technology end-of-course assessment scores.

Dale Jacobs

Dale Jacobs

Students Alexander Seyfield and Micaiah Keller (Westwood High School), Bryan Bertotty and Murray McDaniel (Spring Valley High School) and Justin Seabrook (Ridge View High School) all scored at the proficient or advanced levels of the national exam. The class is taught by Kirstin Bullington.

Ridge View High School Scholars Academy Magnet for Business and Law senior, Malika Lightbourne, has been selected as a 2018 U.S. Presidential Scholars semifinalist.

One hundred fifty-four high achieving eighth grade students were recognized as Junior Scholars at the Richland Two Institute of Innovation, including Blythewood Middle School Brayden Allen, Chad Averette, Caroline Barnes, David Barnett, Camr in Bills, Maxwell Bloom, Jordan Brown, Zachary Brown, Jackson Butler, Sophie Carlton, Ellis Chen, Blythe Davis, Payton Davis, Jorge Escobedo, Gyles Gregory, William Gregory, Riley Johnson, Landin Langridge, Abigail Lee, Brandon Marshall, Caroline Nutter, Leigh Reyes, Lauryn Scott, William Sherman, Ava Swindler, Evan Taylor, Genesis Taylor, Lauren Tocci, Noah Valsecchi, Madeline Webster, and Isaiah Williams

Malika Lightbourne

Malika Lightbourne

Dent Middle School

Noah Adams, Lillian Altschul, Andrew Boysia, Victoria Brook, Angelina Cain, Anna Carroll, Dylan Chau, Eileen Chen, Brennan Davis, Parth Desai, Scott Dill ion, Kathleen Dotson, Justin El l is, Michael Facteau, Justin Flemming, Wesley Fletcher, Shyam Ganesh Babu, Grace Gattman, Avery Goodale, Noah Hicks, Angel Huang, Zachary Huang, William Johnson, Shriya Kapoor, Anish Kulkarni, Song Lee, Christopher Li, Kennedy Martin, Emma McArtor, Elizabeth McCal lum, Apurva Mitta, Samuel Munteanu, Dorayn Murphy, Tia Myers, Madeline Nealey, Sanjana Parise, Evelyn Plakal, Pranav Poola, Emery Randall , Parker Reyes, Steve Robinson, Sahildeep Singh, Jack Stacy, David Stark, Aidan Stoughton, Shreya Thiagu, Simran Tippabhatla, Terry Watson, Blakely Wild, and Joshua Yow

E.L. Wright Middle

Luke Beard, Jaxson Clark, Rishi Desai, Madison Futch, Tyler McDonald, Henry Pettis, Hope Scott, Abdulrahman Soliman, Freedom Spiva, Yana Udani, Reagan Watson, Aaliya Wiggs, James Wilcher, Spencer Williams, and Anand Yeruva

Linda Pratt

Linda Pratt

Kelly Mill Middle

Kaci Bol ing, Kylie Boston, Macy Collins, Ian Daugherty, Daylan Isreal, Connor Jackson, Abigail Kaczynski, Turner Lam, Phillip Larkins, Corinne Lunn, Hannah Myers, Tim Nguyen, Oluwatobi Odubena, Peyton Parker-Smith, Ryann Peterson, Ethan Rumpel, Cynthia Schaefer, Nicholas Spencer, and ZacharyVereen

Longleaf Middle

Evan Beck, Zi’Yonna Guider, Henry Nelson, Avery Romriell, and Alexander Winslow

Muller Road Middle

Jaelynn Adams, Alexander Anelli, Amya Brewer, Katherine Brown, Evan Cox, Katiya Daniel, Jordan Goings, Andrew Grant, Kara Hankinson, John Heath, Caleb Ledley, Drake Lesher, Olijuah McFadden, Austin Meisner, Joshua Meisner, Andrew Moore, Caitlyn Murray, Paul Navis, William O’Cain, Seth Scholl, and Kailey Watson

Summit Parkway Middle

Eva Camlin, Abram Coleman, Abigail Collins, Kennedy Corbin, Abigael Goutier, Jonathan Jeffcoat, Skylar King, Kyla Lloyd, Jariz Mallebrera Ortiz, Moksha Prabhu, Kennedy Reynolds, Katelynn Sauve, and Lizabeth Scott

Dr. David Degenhardt, Ridge View High School Institute of Health Science teacher, was selected as a 2018 South Carolina DoD Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS) Teacher of the Year.

Ridge View High School student Kellayia Gailes earned a National Medal in the 2018 Scholastics Art & Writing Awards.

School for the Arts student and Ridge View High School sophomore James Nesbitt is one of only 56 high school sophomores from across the country selected to participate in the Telluride Sophomore Seminar at Cornell University.

Richland One Schools has announced Linda Pratt has been appointed to serve as principal of Carver-Lyon Elementary School for the 2018-2019 school year.


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