During this 2020–2021 academic year, Lexington County School District One continues to work to keep our students and staff safe while providing a high-quality education.
We believe that we should keep our internal and external public informed about the impact of COVID-19 on our schools and have created a dashboard which does that. The dashboard, which contains that important information, is updated no later than 12 p.m. each weekday. The student and staff active positive numbers are the number of students and staff with COVID-19. The number of students and staff excluded includes all individuals who exhibited COVID-19-like symptoms or who are on quarantine as close contacts, etc.
As this process continues, we will update this webpage with more information. We hope that you will check back often to learn what we are doing as we navigate that process. We encourage you to share your questions for us by emailing communications@lexington1.net.
Phase Two
Here are the schedules for elementary, middle and high schools.
These will be updated within the next week.
Implementing Phase Two — the “Four Plus One” model (one page summary)
09-22-2020 Lexington District One announces Phase Two
Parent Communication
COVID-19 Parent/Guardian Communications Guide
09-08-2020 Email to Parents/Guardians regarding SC DHEC’s new website and our new Parent/Guardian Communications Guide
SC DHEC’s Schools and Child Care Centers (COVID-19) website
Beginning Friday, Sep. 4, DHEC will provide a school report that includes for every school both cumulative and rolling 30-day counts of confirmed cases among students, teachers and faculty members, and will be updated on Tuesday and Friday afternoons.
COVID-19 Student Safety Pledge
Important FERPA Reminders in an E-Learning or Virtual Environment
Top 10 things you need to know as we head back to school. (in Spanish)
ATHLETICS
07-12-2020 Lexington District One reopens face-to-face athletic workouts
06-30-2020 Lexington District One suspends face-to-face athletic workouts, academic camps
06-2020 Athletics cautiously return
SPECIAL SERVICES
07-23-2020 Dr. Balough letter to parents/guardians of students who receive services
07-23-2020 Dr. Balough letter to parents/guardians of students who receive services (Spanish)
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Online Learning Academy
For all of your Online Learning Academy needs, click here.
questions and answers
Coming soon — We will share questions and answers received since the Phase Two announcement.
Child care resources for families
We realize that some families will need child care during virtual learning days and after school. You can find a list of Lexington County child care providers and their full-day and afterschool services here.
Together Talks with Dr. Little
08-11-2020 — Together Talk: Social-emotional learning minichat
What is social-emotional learning?
07-28-2020 — E-learning and the Online Learning Academy
In our latest Together Talk, Superintendent Greg Little discusses the online learning opportunities the district will offer this year.
07-21-2020 — Together Talk: Mask Chat
Superintendent Greg Little speaks with pediatric infectious disease professionals, Dr. Anna-Kathryn Burch and Dr. Robert Daniels, about the importance of masking.
To view all of our Together Talk videos, please go to our YouTube channel.
NEWS
09-09-2020 — All Lexington District One students eligible for free meals
Beginning Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, all Lexington County School District One students can receive free breakfast and lunch. The United States Department of Agriculture approved Lexington District One’s free food program for all students until December 31.
07-12-2020 — Lexington District One reopens face-to-face athletic workouts
Lexington County School District One athletic directors and coaches are currently informing their athletes that face to face athletic practices, workouts, and conditioning will resume on Wednesday, July 15.
This reopening comes after a two-week long review of health and safety procedures, including social distancing, hand washing, and the wearing of masks.
06-30-2020 — Lexington District One suspends face to face athletic workouts, academic camps
Today, out of an abundance of caution, Lexington County School
District One suspended all current face to face athletic practices, workouts, and activities as
well as the face to face 5-year-old kindergarten and first grade Academic Recovery Camps
scheduled for July 6–30.
06-18-2020 — Athletics Begin to Return
Lexington District One athletes are returning to school-sponsored team sports.
The South Carolina High School League (SCHSL) taskforce has proposed a three-phase approach. Lexington District One is currently in Phase One. The SCHSL has not released Phases Two and Three and movement through these phases is contingent upon successfully meeting the challenges of each prior phase. Read more...
OUR PROCESS
Lexington District One gathered information from parent and student surveys regarding their experiences with the online/e-learning and other methods used from March 16 through the end of the 2019–2020 academic year.
District administrators formed a 15-member Reentry Task Force charged with researching and learning everything they could about the ways other states and districts were approaching the next school year while carefully protecting student and staff health and wellbeing.
Subcommittees or working groups made up of school administrators at each grade band — elementary, middle and high — and members of individual divisions and departments created detailed proposals describing their recommendations for what learning might look like in the fall.
Their work then went to focus groups of parents, doctors, students, teachers, nurses, support staff, etc., for feedback.
In addition, the district initiated a new tool called Thoughtexchange to gather the thoughts and suggestions of parents and employees that we need to consider as we plan to reopen our schools this fall after the COVID-19
school closures this March.
The feedback gathered from the focus groups and the Thoughtexchange went to another team, the Drafting Team. That team will improve the original detailed proposals using the work of those groups.