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Hundreds of Aiken County school employees got their first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine Friday at Midland Valley High School, the first of six cl...

Teaching and learning has looked very different during the pandemic as students and teachers have taken on the challenge of learning virtually from kitc...

Several Kennedy Middle School students participated in writing a book, making all of them published authors. Each student in Lanel Williams’ class wro...

On a late Thursday afternoon, Dr. Tiffany Hall, principal of Leavelle McCampbell Middle School in Aiken County, delivered a golden tire to this month’s ...

Schools in the Aiken County Public School District will offer Black History Month activities this year, with some adjustments due to the COVID-19 pandem...

Eight student-athletes from South Aiken High School gathered Wednesday evening in the school’s library with their friends and family to sign to play at ...

Teams of middle school students from across South Carolina recently participated in this year’s virtual Future City Regional Competition, providing a lo...

Six Aiken Hornets football players signed Wednesday to extend their athletic and academic careers beyond the high school level. Phillip Collins signed...

Aiken County Public Schools will move to five-day instruction at all instructional levels beginning Monday, March 1, 2021. “We are in the third quart...

AIKEN, S.C. – Aiken Scholars Academy Principal Martha Messick could not have been more proud standing behind the podium Wednesday morning at the Ruth ...

Public Educations Partners (PEP) was recognized during the Tuesday, February 23, 2021, regular meeting of the Aiken County Board of Education for prov...

Two key figures from Wagener-Salley’s most successful football era signed Tuesday to extend their academic and athletic careers. Defensive lineman Eli...

AIKEN, S.C. – In his first trip to the Aiken County Scripps Spelling Bee Finals and his final year of eligibility, Kennedy Middle School eighth grader...

February was a month of activities, assignments and trivia connected to Black history for many students in Aiken County public schools. Here are two l...

Durring a virtual town hall meeting recently, the Alumni Association of USC Aiken announced the 2021 CORE 4 award honorees. Winners are usually announ...

The past year has thrown up plenty of obstacles for Wagener-Salley High School teachers Alex Derrick and Ethan Busbee, along with their dozens of studen...

Lucinda Kenner, a native of Concord, North Carolina, got her first exposure to Aiken County in 1960, when she was living and working in Washington, D.C....

Two minutes. Weeks of learning, building and practicing come down to two minutes. Small robots, controlled by teenagers, compete to score the most point...

Readers of the Aiken Standard donated a record $6,498 to this year’s Community Christmas Card, a fund that benefits public school students throughout Ai...

Following rounds of exciting competition at the school and area levels, 12 students have emerged as contenders for the title of Aiken County’s Scripps S...