Augusta Circle Elementary School is helping all students develop the World Class Skills of the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate by providing a safe, caring, and academically challenging learning environment. We provide such an environment through the implementation of our school vision: a school that has a “Legacy of Excellence and Leadership."
Augusta Circle is a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, a Palmetto’s Finest School, and a Red Carpet school. It is a traditional elementary school serving a student population of 580 students. Nestled in an urban neighborhood in Greenville, S.C., Augusta Circle is the focal point of the community and is rich in the tradition and the history of the city. The school offers a rigorous academic program and continues to maintain high expectations for all students.
Our teachers implement continuous improvement by adopting new and effective strategies in the classroom such as: one-to-one Chromebooks, balanced literacy, personalized reading instruction, STEAM lab instruction, project based learning in science and social studies, and writing across the curriculum. We have additional support from our literacy specialist, resource teachers, speech teacher, instructional coach, and a Greenville Mental Health counselor.
At Augusta Circle we also have other programs outside the academic environment. School-wide we focus on embedding the 7 Habits of Healthy Kids in all that we do. Our guidance counselor teaches the 7 habits in monthly classroom guidance lessons and teachers help students practice the habits throughout the day. We partner with Mentor Greenville so that select students enjoy lunch or breakfast with adult mentors once a week. This year, the PTA organized service projects, a family outreach program for Augusta Circle at-risk students, and a week long, in-depth study of a foreign country. Our music teacher offers chorus, percussion, recorder and ukulele clubs to 4th and 5th grade students. First through fifth grade students participate after school in Challenge Island and STEAM clubs.
As a learning community, teachers implemented strategies to meet our goals of (1) improving student achievement in reading and math and (2) closing the gap between FARM and non-FARM students. We continue to be the school where “Kids are the Heart.”
Mimi Melehes, Principal
Meredith Papapieris, SIC Chairman
