Irmo High School International School for the Arts is now authorized to offer the International Baccalaureate Career-related Progarmme (IBCP). The IB Career-related Programme Magnet is a partnership between Irmo High School and the Center for Advanced Technical Studies (The Center) and is an academically rigorous program that combines rigorous IBContinue Reading

Irmo High Middle School International Academic Magnet has been named a nationally certified magnet school by Magnet Schools of America (MSA), the national association for magnet and theme-based schools. The Lexington-Richland School District Five middle school was among 31 schools nationwide to successfully complete a rigorous nine-month evaluation process andContinue Reading

By Al Dozier Teachers in Lexington-Richland District 5 are now participating in a new state-recommended program designed to assess a teacher’s professional practice to help improve the classroom instruction performance. The District 5 board received a report on the Standards 4.0 Rubric program at its August 19 meeting. It’s theContinue Reading

Niche.com has released its 2020 Best Schools in America rankings, and Lexington-Richland School District Five was named the number one school district in South Carolina. The website ranks more than 10,000 public school districts based on statistics and millions of opinions from students and parents. School District Five’s overall “A”Continue Reading

Dozens of family members, School District Five staff, and community partners were on hand at Harbison West Elementary School for a learning celebration that capped off a summer reading camp for rising fourth grade students.  The five-week camp housed at Harbison West Elementary School included independent reading, assisted reading, writingContinue Reading

By Al Dozier As Lexington-Richland District 5 copes with enrollment shifts and crowded schools it may hire a professional consulting business to plan for the future. The board heard a presentation at Monday’s meeting from Mike Zuma of Milone & MacBroom, a Connecticut-based civil engineering and landscape architecture firm thatContinue Reading

Lexington-Richland School District Five has named administrator Matt Gams the new principal of River Springs Elementary School. Gams was previously assistant principal at River Springs Elementary, where he served for six years. He also served as an assistant principal at Nursery Road Elementary for two years prior to River SpringsContinue Reading

Lauren Chen, from Dutch Fork High School, Irmo was among 82 top achieving U.S. high school and international scholars at the 36th annual Research Science Institute (RSI), jointly sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). RSI is a six-week program that gives studentsContinue Reading

Lexington-Richland School District Five is announcing an opportunity for families to apply for available seats remaining at Chapin Elementary School and Lake Murray Elementary School. The district is also announced results of its enrollment freeze lottery process. An enrollment freeze was enacted at Chapin Elementary and Lake Murray Elementary schoolsContinue Reading