Eighth-grade students visited the White House, the U.S. Supreme Court and more.
Marlene Metts has been a special education teacher, speech pathologist, consultant and the Director of the Office of Exceptional Children at the South Carolina Department of Education.
The show will be held April 17-20 at Midlands Technical College's Harbison Theatre, 7300 College Street, Irmo.
Dr. Herbert Berg has been a leader in public education for 40 years.
Bands from Irmo and Chapin middle schools received Superior ratings at the South Carolina Band Director’s Association Concert Festiva
Scott Compton, a teacher who was place on paid leave after Lexington-Richland 5 officials learned he stomped on the American flag, said he will resign at the end of the 2012-2013 school year.
Kim Murphy has filed an appeal in two courts to return to the seat she was elected to serve in 2010.
The finalists for the 2013-2014 Teacher of the Year award were announced Thursday.
A petition is requesting district officials take a longer look at its plan to purchase iPad minis for all high school students to use beginning this fall.
As part of the district's technology plan, all high school students will be issued iPad mini tablets in the 2013-2014 school year.
Lexington-Richland 5 announced the names of the new principals at Irmo High and Dutch Fork Middle for the 2013-2014 school year.
One winner is selected per school and an overall winner for the district's writing contest.
Check out these photos from events involving Lexington-Richland 5 schools.
The school's student council’s has collected dozens of canned goods for Harvest Hope through its Hunger Games food drive, which ends in May.
The Palmetto Gold and Silver Awards program recognizes schools for high levels of academic achievement and high rates of improvement as well as those schools working to close the achievement gaps.
CrossRoads Middle’s Quaseem Nunnally, Chapin High’s Cameron Daly and Dutch Fork Middle’s Jimmy Byrne are finalists in the third annual BB&T “This School’s Got Talent” Competition, hosted by South Carolina Future Minds.
The regular meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the Center for Advanced Technical Studies, 916 Mount Vernon Church Road in Chapin.
Irmo High graduate Brittany Alyse Walker will participate in a paid internship at DuPont for a minimum of 10 weeks in their research and development lab in Wilmington, Del.
Barrett Isbell, a 2011 graduate of Anderson University, is Lexington-Richland 5's new public information specialist I.
Volunteers from Dutch Fork High rang bells at six different kettle stations, raising a total of $1,481.50.
Melton will replace Helen Anderson who is retiring from the district in August.
A special meeting has been called for 7 p.m. Tuesday at the district office, 1020 Dutch Fork Road in Irmo.
Mayor Hardy King gave official proclamations to the Dutch Fork High girls’ and Irmo High boys’ basketball teams for winning the state title games.
Family Literacy Day will be held at Irmo Middle School from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The board's policy will reflect an increase in the percentage of funds from 8.5 percent to a range from 15 to 18 percent.
The school is scheduled to open during the 2013-2014 school year next to the Center for Advanced Technical Studies in Chapin.
Elizabeth Murphy is also competing for the title of America's Favorite Homecoming Queen.
Robert Barron, a social studies teacher at Dutch Fork, is the recipient of the Horace Mann-Abraham Lincoln Fellowship.
The journalism programs at Dutch Fork High School earned top awards at the Southern Interscholastic Press Association convention.
District 5 board members will meet for a regular meeting Monday at 7 p.m. at Dutch Fork Middle School.
This was the first year that the school participated in the South Carolina Science Olympiad at Newberry College.
A list of the top winners from District 5's science fair.
Fifteen natives of Columbia and Irmo graduated from Limestone College.
Katrina Goggins, a communications coordinator from Orangeburg, will serve as District 5's new public information specialist.
Irmo's Detrek Browning and Dutch Fork's Rose Robinson will play in this year's North-South All-Star game held March 16 at Lexington High School.
CrossRoads Middle STEM teacher Dr. Christopher Craft has been named to the National School Boards Association's Technology Leadership Network's "20 to Watch"
A look at what's happening with Nursery Road Elementary School students.
Kim Murphy's questions on school construction costs may have prompted her opponents to examine her residency, according to a report from The State.
The District Five Foundation for Educational Excellence's annual Battle on the Dam was held Saturday at the Dreher Shoals Dam to encourage active lifestyles.
It was a good night for Irmo basketball players. The Yellow Jackets won their second state title in three years when they beat the Gators, 65-46 Friday night.