Our mission is to provide all students with a high-quality education that leads to productive citizenship in a global society.

Please be advised proof of residence must be submitted to the school via upload to your annual Returning Student Verification, which you are to complete in Parent Portal https://richland1sc.powerschool.com/public for each of your students.

Only complete documents will be accepted. If you experience any difficulty uploading your documents, submit the Returning Student Verification FIRST, then contact the school's registrar at Taneshia.kelley@richlandone.org or (803) 735-7640 to request an appointment to submit your documents in person and if you need access to your parent account. To ensure adequate processing, documents will NOT be accepted without an appointment

As the weather begins to change, please make sure your student wears clothes that are appropriate for school. Please make sure they do NOT wear:

• Short pants or skirts that are very short. The length of lower garments should be within 3 - 4 inches from the top of the knee.
• Jeans with excessively large holes in the thigh area exposing bare skin.
• Bonnets, do - rags and head scarfs that cover the entire head.
• Cropped shirts and jackets that expose midriffs and stomach areas.

If your student has failed one or more classes, please take advantage of this opportunity to have them recover credits that they failed in order to be a 10th grader next school year. Please sign up through your student's guidance counselor.

If your student has failed one or more classes, please take advantage of this opportunity to have them recover credits that they failed in order to be promoted to their next grade level and graduate on time. Please sign up through your student's guidance counselor.

Start Strong Summer Program for rising 6th – 9th graders. This program is designed to provide students with literacy and numeracy strategies that will help support their learning when they return to school in the fall. During the program, students will participate in engaging learning activities and opportunities. Students will be assessed to determine their progress on content and skills learned in the program.

There is no cost to attend the Start Strong Summer Program.

Early Pass (Rising Senior Credit Recovery)

At Eau Claire High School, we take daily attendance. A student is coded absent for the day if he/she is absent from 3 or more of their assigned classes for that day. When students accumulate three days in a row or a total of five unexcused days at any time in the school year, parents will be contacted to schedule a meeting to discuss the absences and develop an Attendance Intervention Plan (AIP). Should the student continue to accumulate unexcused absences, ECHS will prepare a truancy petition requiring the parent and student to appear before a Judge in Family Court.

Attendance and Grades

Students are more likely to succeed in academics when they attend school regularly. Students who are absent from a class for 10 or more days from a yearlong class or 5 or more days from a semester class will not receive credit for that class and will receive a grade of Failure due to attendance (FA).

Excused (Lawful) Absences

A student who is absent from school must present a note to the attendance office within 48 hours of his/her return to school. ECHS has placed on its website, under “Quick Links”, an easy to complete form to report student absences. No more than 10 parent notes can be accepted during a school year.

The winners are in!! Please give a HUGE shamrock shoutout to the following students if you see them!

First Place- Cassandra Rott-Cruz

Second Place-Cheyenne Burrell

Third Place-Cassandra Rott-Cruz

Honorable Mention- Brian Merritt

Teacher's Choice- Lindsay Castrejon

Permanent Art Collection Piece- Cheyenne Burrell

These students worked EXTRA hard in class and have gone above and beyond in their work!

Spring Football Practices are going on until May 31st. They are Monday -Thursday. They will be happening behind the Eau Claire campus on the football field. They are free and open to the public. We would appreciate the support from the community as we get ready for the 2022 season.

In honor of Music in Our Schools Month (March), 4 of my 2B Orchestra students and I wanted to share a couple of selections we are working on for our Spring Concert (see attachments), coming up on Thursday May 19 at 6:00pm in the ECHS Theater. Admission will be free and we would love to see as many of you as possible there, so please save the date now

25 Senior Awards (Students only)

25 Athletic Banquet

26 Senior Check Out

27 Senior Walk and Cook Out

28 Junior / Senior Prom

30 No School Memorial Day

3 LAST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS

7 Report Cards Mailed to Parents

The first day of school for students is Tuesday, August 16!

4800 Monticello Road

Columbia, S.C. 29203

Phone: (803) 735 -7600

Fax: (803) 754-6036

eauclaire.richlandone.org

ECHS CONTACTS

Principal

Neshunda Walters

neshunda.walters@richlandone.org

Samuel Murphy, Asst. Principal

803 735-3232

samuel.murphy@richlandone.org

Danielle Reilly, Asst. Principal

803 735-3231

danielle.reilly@richlandone.org

Dr. Solomon Smalls, Asst. Principal

803 735-7633

solomon.smalls@richlandone.org

Curtis Bates, Assistant Administrator

803 735-7600 ext. 61720

curtis.bates@richlandone.org

Kimberly Onley, Attendance

803 691-4954

Anna Downs Counselor (H - Q)

803 735-7654

anna.downs@richlandone.org

Catina Grant, Lead Counselor (R -Z)

803 735-7637

catina.thomas2@richlandone.org

Alice Washington Counselor (A-G)

803 735-7651

alice.washington@richlandone.org