IRMO, S.C. — Lexington-Richland School District Five celebrated a wall-raiser ceremony September 4 at Nursery Road Elementary School-Arts Magnet, marking the beginning of a renovation project designed to create dedicated classroom spaces.
The project will enclose existing classroom walls to create individual, contained classrooms designed to support a more focused and modern learning environment for students and faculty. The new spaces will also provide teachers with greater opportunities to engage students.
The renovation is part of School District Five’s ongoing capital improvement efforts made possible through the 2024 bond referendum. The referendum is funding projects designed to enhance learning environments, improve school facilities and meet the evolving needs of students and staff across the district.
“Today is an exciting day for Nursery Road,” Principal Karey Fisher said. “Our theme for this project is Building Future Champions, and I can’t think of a better time to begin. Nursery Road was built in 1980. For almost 50 years, this school has been a place where children have learned, created, performed, discovered their talents, and grown into who they were meant to be. And now, we get to prepare it for the next 50 years.”
Fisher said the project represents an investment in teachers and students.
“I am so grateful to our school board, our district, and our community for making this commitment to Nursery Road,” she said. “These new classroom spaces are an investment in our teachers and, ultimately, in every child who will walk through our doors.”
Nursery Road Elementary School-Arts Magnet is the only elementary school in School District Five to offer Media, Visual and Performing Arts with an extended arts rotation, as well as Arts Integration in the general education classroom.
“This is an exciting milestone for Nursery Road Elementary and for our entire School District Five community,” Superintendent Dr. Akil E. Ross Sr. said. “This project represents exactly what we envisioned when our community supported the bond referendum—investing in learning environments that give our students and teachers the space and resources they need to thrive.”
“By transforming these pods into dedicated classrooms, we are creating more purposeful instructional spaces while also making thoughtful use of an existing facility,” Ross said. “We are grateful to our community for believing in our students and supporting these investments in their future.”
