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Beaufort County School Referendum Vote this Saturday

Scheduled for this Saturday is a public vote for Beaufort County’s proposed school referendum.  The goal of the referendum is to raise funds to provide both new schools in Bluffton and Beaufort as well as repairs and improvements in technology to existing schools.  This will be the second referendum put to vote in the past two and a half years [...]

Bluffton Area Schools - Part 2 - The Recent News

The new Superintendent – Dr. Valerie Truesdale will begin her tenure at Beaufort County starting tomorrow, June 1st.  Dr. Truesdale was previously the Superintendent for Oconee County Schools, also in South Carolina.  The improvements made while Dr. Truesdale was with Oconee County are well documented, and the similarities between the two school districts were a [...]

Bluffton area schools - Part 1 - The Current Status

First, let me say this is one issue most real estate agents wish to brush under the rug when the topic arises.  However, there is simply no denying the fact that there needs to be improvement within the local area’s public school system.  The two issues of the greatest concern for the Bluffton area schools are the relatively low PACT test scores [...]

Bluffton area Schools - a 4 part discussion

To say there is a lot going on for the Beaufort County School Board would be an understatement.  A new Superintendent was hired this past month, the preliminary sketches for three new schools (two in Bluffton) have been reviewed and PACT testing will begin in a few days.  Because there is so much happening within [...]

Two future Bluffton schools now have names

Earlier this year the Beaufort County School Board purchased two parcels of land for new schools.  An elementary school will be built at the intersection of Red Cedar St. and Bluffton Parkway and a new middle school will be built between Buck Island Rd. and Simmonsville Rd.
A few weeks back the school board asked the [...]