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Learn about the proposed ESPLOST renewal and General Obligation Bond vote that will take place on Tuesday, March 18, 2025.
The Jackson County School System has announced its Class of 2025 Valedictorians and Salutatorians for both East Jackson High School and Jackson County High School.
Three students from the Jackson County School System were selected to participate in the upcoming All-State Band weekend on Feb. 27 through March 1 in Athens. A fourth student was named an alternate.
The Jackson County School System will have 24 students participate in the upcoming All-State Chorus weekend on Feb. 13-15 in Athens.
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District Feature Spotlights
During the planning phases of opening a new middle school, which included splitting the staff at West Jackson Middle School, science teacher Austin Poole was asked if he would lead the middle school baseball program at the Legacy Knoll Middle School.
Chris Fowler is glad to be back inside of his classroom at Jackson County High School. With a sense of appreciation for the community he lives and works in, Fowler is back teaching U.S. History following another battle with Lymphoma, a blood cancer that affects the lymphatic system.
The Empower College and Career Center is known for providing students with career relevant learning experiences. The new Graphic Arts Pathway is no different. This pathway, in its inaugural semester, allows students to learn various graphic design skills and how to apply them to other industries.
Being at the helm of her own program for the first time, Jackson County High School’s newest girls basketball coach, Mackenzie Sandy (formerly Darrah)...
Children outside exploring an orchard, teachers conducting lessons in the beauty of an outdoor classroom...
The passion for nursing and the ability to help children started at a young age for Emily Fears.
This is Jeopardy! Those are the words spoken at the start of the iconic game show Jeopardy.
Sister’s Mattie Brooks and Bailey Brooks Phillips know eagle pride as well as anyone. The Brooks family has sent 14 different cousins to East Jackson.
His wife and their two young children were waiting on the sideline for their customary postgame hugs and kisses.
On the first Thursday in August, while students step off the bus or unload from their family vehicles, bushy-eyed and ready to start a new school year, five new principals inside the Jackson County School System will be awaiting to greet students, and ready to lead throughout the upcoming school year.
Twenty-Three year old pilot, Hayden Dutton has been flying planes since he was sixteen.
Ascending to approximately 40,000 feet above the ground, pilot Hayden Dutton is now in the career he decided to pursue in high school. You can say it’s in his blood.
EJCHS Alumni Ryan Robinett shares his road to MIT to Ph.D.
After graduation, Robinett moved to Cambridge Massachusetts and he quickly found himself immersed within the world of MIT. Although he felt like the only person with the word ‘y'all’ in his vocabulary, Robinett was euphoric about the journey he’d embarked on.
It all started in 2004, when the oldest, Eli, was a freshman at Jackson County High School, brother Sam was in sixth-grade at West Jackson Middle, and Josh and Anna were at South Jackson Elementary. Mark, the youngest of the Gaultney children, wasn't born yet.
The family had just moved to Jackson County from Gwinnett County, and the four oldest Gaultney kids headed into the Jackson County School System.
And since that day in August 19 years ago, the Gaultney family has had at least one child inside a JCSS school. That was until this past May when Mark, often referred to as Bud by the family, graduated from East Jackson Comprehensive High School.