Kershaw County School District (KCSD) is a public

school district A school district is a special-purpose district that operates local public primary and secondary schools in various nations. North America United States In the U.S, most K–12 public schools function as units of local school districts, wh ...

Kershaw County Kershaw County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 65,403. The county seat and largest city is Camden. The county was created in 1791 from parts of Claremont, Lancaster, Fairfie ...

South Carolina )''Animis opibusque parati'' ( for, , Latin, Prepared in mind and resources, links=no) , anthem = " Carolina";" South Carolina On My Mind" , Former = Province of South Carolina , seat = Columbia , LargestCity = Charleston , LargestMetro = ...

( US). Led by

Superintendent of Schools In the American education system, a superintendent or superintendent of schools is an administrator or manager in charge of a number of public schools or a school district, a local government body overseeing public schools. All school principa ...

Dr. Harrison Goodwin, KCSD serves 10,750+ students and employs 1,200 faculty members across 20 schools. The main office is located on West DeKalb Street in

Camden, South Carolina Camden is the largest city and county seat of Kershaw County, South Carolina. The population was 7,764 in the 2020 census. It is part of the Columbia, South Carolina, Metropolitan Statistical Area. Camden is the oldest inland city in South Caro ...

. The district's boundary parallels that of the county.

History

In 2021 the district began hiring and paying students for some school support positions since there were not enough post-high school applicants for some of the positions.

Technology

In the 2018–19 school year, all 20 schools are wireless and connected by a high-speed wide area network. Students and staff have full-time Internet access in classrooms, libraries and computer labs, including distance learning opportunities. Kershaw County was the first school district in South Carolina to provide individual wireless personal computing devices to all high school students through an $8 million i-CAN initiative in 2004. All teachers have personal computing devices, and all classrooms are equipped with interactive whiteboards. Students in grades 3–12 are 1:1; preK-2nd grade use technology on mobile carts.

Facilities

In late 2007, the Kershaw County School District undertook a "Facilities Equalization" plan in an effort to give students the same opportunities throughout the county, regardless of where they lived. Phase 1 of the $102.2 million plan includes two new middle schools, Camden Middle School and Lugoff-Elgin Middle School, new wellness facilities at all three high schools, a new elementary school, and two elementary renovation projects. In November 2016, voters in Kershaw County approved a two-question $129 million referendum to move forward with a number of critical school construction projects in the district. The referendum addressed aging facilities, growth and safety issues, addressing a total of 17 construction projects. Among the projects are four new facilities; Camden Elementary School, Lugoff Elementary School and Wateree Elementary School broke ground in May 2017 and estimate completion in December 2018. The fourth project, the Applied Technology Education Campus (ATEC), broke ground in December 2017 with the estimated opening of August 2019.

High schools

* Camden High School *

Lugoff-Elgin High School Lugoff-Elgin High School (often ''LEHS'') is a public high school located in Lugoff, South Carolina. It is one of the three high schools in the Kershaw County School District of South Carolina. It opened in 1971. It is home of the Lugoff-Elgin ...

* North Central High School * Woolard Technology Center – Career and Technology Education * Continuous Learning Center (CLC) – Alternative Education

Middle schools

* Camden Middle School * Lugoff-Elgin Middle School * Leslie. M Stover Middle School * North Central Middle School

Elementary schools

* Baron DeKalb Elementary School * Bethune Elementary School * Blaney Elementary School * Camden Elementary School * Doby's Mill Elementary School * Jackson School * Lugoff Elementary School * Midway Elementary School * Mt. Pisgah Elementary School * Pine Tree Hill Elementary School * Wateree Elementary School

References

External links

*{{official website, https://www.kcsdschools.net Camden, South Carolina School districts in South Carolina Education in Kershaw County, South Carolina Educational institutions in the United States with year of establishment missing