Our Initiatives
major district-wide initiatives
Equip Every Child to Thrive
When you give to special education, you’re helping create a world where every child—regardless of ability—can learn, grow, and thrive.
Your gift helps fund:
- Adaptive equipment like communication devices, sensory tools, and mobility aids
- Specialized classroom materials tailored to diverse learning needs
- Inclusive programs that support social, emotional, and academic development
Every donation helps ensure students with disabilities are not left behind—but fully included, supported, and empowered.
Together, we can create learning environments where all children are seen, valued, and given the tools they need to succeed.
Fuel Hands-On Learning
When you support experiential, project-based learning, you’re helping students go beyond textbooks to build, create, and discover through real-world experiences.
Your gift helps fund:
- Outdoor classrooms, field-based science, and nature-based learning
- Career-connected projects like building gardens, launching businesses, or solving local problems
- Field Trips locally, nationally, and internationally
- Hands-on materials and mentorships that bring lessons to life
These experiences ignite curiosity, boost academic achievement, and teach critical life skills like teamwork, problem-solving, and perseverance.
With your support, learning becomes meaningful—and every student sees how their education connects to the world around them.
Invest in the Earliest Years—Where Learning Begins
A strong start can change a child’s entire future. When you support early childhood education, you’re laying the foundation for lifelong learning, confidence, and success.
Your gift helps provide:
- Literacy-rich classrooms and developmentally appropriate materials
- Play-based learning experiences that nurture curiosity and social-emotional growth
- Access to early intervention and support services for children who need it most
Every dollar helps close the gap before it widens—ensuring all children enter school ready to learn, thrive, and reach their full potential.
Give early. Change everything.
Support Arts & Music Education: Let Every Child Find Their Voice
Arts and music education spark creativity, build confidence, and open doors for students to express themselves in powerful ways. From paintbrushes to banjos, these experiences help children discover who they are—and what they’re capable of.
Your gift helps provide:
- Instruments, supplies, and performance materials for school programs
- Access to transformative programs like YAMS (Young Appalachian Musicians), which preserve regional culture while teaching discipline and joy through music
- Creative spaces where students can paint, dance, act, and sing their way to deeper learning
When we invest in the arts, we invest in the whole child—mind, heart, and spirit.
Help us keep the arts alive in every school. Because every child deserves a chance to be heard.
Power the Future with STEM Education
STEM education sparks curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking—preparing students not just for tests, but for life in a fast-changing world.
Your gift helps provide:
- Hands-on STEM labs, maker spaces, and robotics kits
- Cross-curricular projects that blend science, technology, engineering, art, and math
- Real-world challenges that build collaboration, innovation, and problem-solving skills
From coding and circuitry to design thinking and digital art, students learn to dream big and think boldly.
By supporting STEM education, you’re helping the next generation become not just learners—but inventors, creators, and leaders.
Transform Classrooms into Spaces that Inspire
The right environment can spark creativity, focus, and collaboration. Innovative classroom furniture goes beyond desks and chairs—it invites movement, interaction, and flexible thinking.
Your gift helps provide:
- Flexible seating options like wobble stools, standing desks, and soft seating areas
- Collaborative furniture that allows students to work in teams, problem-solve, and share ideas
- Interactive tools like mobile whiteboards and tech-integrated tables that make learning dynamic
These tools are more than comfort—they’re catalysts for engagement, equity, and empowerment.
Help us design learning spaces where students don’t just sit—they think, explore, and thrive.
Support Student Wellness: Healthy Minds, Healthy Futures
Children can’t learn if they’re overwhelmed, anxious, or unwell. That’s why investing in mental health and physical wellness is essential to ensuring every child has the foundation they need to succeed—inside and outside the classroom.
Your gift helps provide:
- Housing support for families experiencing homelessness
- Wellness spaces and calming rooms that give students a safe place to reset and refocus
- Physical wellness programs, including fitness equipment, hydration stations, movement-based learning tools, and healthy nutrition education
- Training for teachers and staff in trauma-informed care and student mental health first aid
From mindfulness moments to movement breaks, we are creating schools where children feel safe, strong, and supported—every single day.
Support whole-child wellness—and help every student grow with confidence, strength, and hope.
Invest in Athletics: Build Character, Teamwork, and Opportunity
School athletics do more than build strong bodies—they build strong leaders. Through sports, students learn discipline, teamwork, resilience, and pride in themselves and their schools.
Your gift helps provide:
- Updated equipment and safe uniforms for student-athletes across the district
- Facility upgrades and field improvements that benefit both students and the community
- Equitable access to sports programs for all students, regardless of income
- Character-building coaching and leadership programs that extend far beyond the field
Athletics help students stay engaged in school, build lifelong friendships, and develop the confidence to tackle challenges on and off the field.
When you support school athletics, you’re investing in more than a game—you’re investing in a generation.
School Initiatives
Click on a school and begin making a difference today!
Dacusville Middle School
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
dacusville elementary School
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
East End Elementary School
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
Pickens County Virtual Academy
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
Project GO Alternative Program
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
easley high School
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
Clemson Elementary Tiger
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
Adult Learning Center School
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
mckissick Academy
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
D.w. Daniel High School
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
Liberty Primary School
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
Liberty High School
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
R.C. Edwards Middle School
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
mckissick Academy
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
Hagood Elementary School
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
Liberty Elementary School
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
Pickens Elementary
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
Pickens High School
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
Wese End Elementary
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
Pickens Middle School
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
liberty middle logo
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Pickens Middle School
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
Six Mile Elementary School
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
Pickens Middle School
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
Ambler Elementary Wildcats
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
career & Technology center
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
Central Academy of the Arts
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
Forest Acres Elementary School
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
Crosswell Elementary School
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
R.H. Gettys Middle School
Phone:
(864) 397-1400
Fax:
(864) 639-5140
Address:
608 Johnson Road Central,
SC 29630
Principal:
Mrs. Tish Goode,
