These ratios will allow more individualized attention and provide a better learning environment at these various grade levels. Also the district has increased its number of mental health counselors with each elementary school having their own counselor with the exception of Brown's Ferry Elementary and Plantersville Elementary sharing and Maryville Elementary School and Kensington Elementary School sharing. Counselors are in place to provide mental health services on site at the schools. Services include individual, family and group counseling, and classroom conferences.
Counselors also serve as consultants with teachers to design an academic success plan for students.
The fully networked, computerized system, which is evaluated and updated annually, helps instructional personnel align the district's curriculum with South Carolina Curriculum Frameworks, and available national standards. It also assists teachers in determining those objectives that their students have completed, and those that need further instructional focus. The system makes available to teachers a bank of test items to assess student achievement on instructional objectives, and it provides a variety of testing options. Reports can be generated for teachers and parents to help them follow students' completion of specific skills. Proper use of this diagnostic tool enables teachers, principals, and parents to make appropriate instructional adjustments for individual students throughout the year as needed.