A Brookland-Cayce High School student has been selected to receive a 2024-2025 National Security Language Initiative for Youth Scholarship (NSLIY) through the U.S. State Department. Senior Zoe Partin will participate in the intensive language summer study program administered by the American Councils for International Education for Chinese (Mandarin), spending this summer in Hsinchu, Taiwan. According to the website, the U.S.... READ MORE >
You never know who you might meet in the morning car rider line. Thursday mornings this spring, Lexington Two elementary school students at Congaree, Springdale, and Wood are having their car doors opened by Airport High School athletes from the baseball, softball, golf, tennis, track, and soccer teams. It’s a great way for the district’s youngest learners to start the... READ MORE >
Busbee Creative Arts Academy and Brookland-Cayce High School Archery Teams have achieved an unprecedented milestone by qualifying for the South Carolina NASP State Tournament in both the IBO and Bullseye categories. The South Carolina NASP State Tournament will take place at the State Fairgrounds in Columbia with high school archers on March 27 and the middle school competition on March... READ MORE >
Brookland-Cayce High School has selected Cory Karl as its new competitive cheer team coach. Karl brings six years of cheer team coaching experience, along with more than a decade of stunt and tumble coaching. She most recently served as head varsity cheer coach at Ben Lippen School, where the team won back-to-back 4A SCISA State Championships. She also served as... READ MORE >
Choral students from Lexington Two schools were selected to perform as part of the 2023-2024 Lexington Two Honor Choir Clinic. Nearly 130 middle and high school students participated in the February 15 clinic at Trinity Baptist Church. Following the clinic, they performed four works under the guidance of guest clinician Augusto Gil and accompanist Jeremy Hansard in front of an... READ MORE >
When DeAndrei Carson took the helm as coach of the Pine Ridge Middle School’s boys basketball team, he had big shoes to fill––his late father’s. Rich Gibson, better known as “Coach Rich,” was a beloved coach, mentor, and father figure at the Lexington Two middle school and around the Pine Ridge community until his passing in November 2022. He spent... READ MORE >
In a season of giving, Northside Middle School recently took the idea to a whole new level. The Lexington Two school’s roughly 500 students participated in the first school-wide Day of Caring. Principal Dr. Tiffany Hall said the idea grew from a School Improvement Council discussion on expanding service and leadership opportunities for students during the school day. “We wanted... READ MORE >
Airport High School senior CeCe Gardner has been named a 2024 Coca-Cola Scholar semifinalist. The Coca-Cola Scholars Program is the largest corporate-sponsored, achievement-based scholarship program in the United States. Gardner was one of 1,514 students nationwide, and one of just 28 in South Carolina, named a semifinalist based on academic excellence, leadership, and service demonstrated in school and community activities.... READ MORE >
The start of regular season basketball play is big enough, but Fulmer Middle School’s boys’ team had an even bigger moment. The Lexington Two team, coached by Fulmer teacher Brett Ebener, was invited to participate in an intersquad scrimmage during halftime of the University of South Carolina men’s basketball game against Notre Dame at Colonial Life Arena on November 28.... READ MORE >
Saluda River Academy for the Arts is celebrating a quarter-century as an arts magnet school. In that time, programming has grown substantially, along with accolades, with the school recognized as an Arts in Basic Curriculum (ABC) Certified School of Distinction and a Kennedy Center Distinction in Arts Education winner, among other honors. The community was invited to help the school... READ MORE >
