Education

Bulloch County Schools will distribute retention bonuses to its employees on January 11. While the bonuses provided by the State of Georgia cover only state-funded employees, Bulloch County Schools will extend the bonus to ALL Bulloch County Board of Education-approved employees, not just those funded by the state.

Help us wish Georgia Southern's beloved mascot Freedom a happy birthday! Learn more about his history and how you can support the Center for Wildlife Education.

Students will begin their second semester on Thursday, January 4.

Catch up with Bulloch County Schools' Career Pathways! The Health Science career pathway in high school is a journey into the world of healthcare and wellness. It provides students with the foundation to explore various healthcare professions, from nursing and medical assisting to medical research and healthcare administration.

For Honors College graduate Madison Gomez, receiving a college diploma involved much more than crossing a stage or moving a tassel. "One of the affirmations that I’ve been saying to myself, especially this last half of the semester, is, ‘I can do hard things.’”

Wesley Fischer, a former firefighter and EMT, and a veteran Navy corpsman, spent more than 100 days in the hospital battling COVID-19 in 2021. He was determined to complete his degree and received unwavering support from the nursing faculty at Georgia Southern and classmates in his nursing cohort.

Waycross native Javon Huynh has written for campus publications like Sincerely Southern and participated in the 2023 Voices Summer Fellow for the Asian American Journalist Association. He interned at WJCL and implemented a journalism course for his hometown YMCA's summer camp program.

For the project, the school’s third and fourth graders will research plants native to Georgia’s Piedmont ecoregion to then plan, install and manage a garden to attract a variety of pollinators. The garden will be used as an outdoor classroom, where older students will teach younger students about pollinators, native plants and biodiversity. Summer campers will work in the garden when school is out of session, and proceeds from a farmer’s market next fall will fund future garden projects.

Bulloch County outperformed the state in the majority of the CCRPI’s component areas for each grade segment - elementary, middle, and high schools. The school district significantly outperformed the state in the Closing the Gap component. Also, Bulloch County’s four-year graduation rate of 89.10% is higher than the state’s rate of 84.9%. Brooklet Elementary received Distinguished School status.

Fall 2023 commencement ceremonies for Georgia Southern were held at the Allen E. Paulson Stadium in Statesboro on Dec. 14 and the Enmarket Arena in Savannah on Dec. 16.