Marrington Middle School of the Arts is one of two BCSD schools to receive an an Arts Curricular Innovation Grant (or ACIG) for the 2025-2026 school year. The program is administered by the South Carolina Department of Education.
Specifically, Marrington Middle clinched a Distinguished Arts Program (or DAP) grant, which is one of three types of grant programs featured by the ACIG. The grant is worth more than $12,000 and will fund different arts-related projects.
Marrington’s project is called “Achieving Excellence Through the Arts”. The school received $18,000 to implement its arts mission goals and objectives for all Marrington students.
Music teacher Melissa Reinheimer said the school is creating world-class innovators through the teaching of rigorous arts standards by:
Using the arts as a unifying theme to drive instruction (arts integration, AIRs, clinicians, master classes)
Promoting an environment to develop creative instructional techniques (materials and supplies, instrument repairs, soundboard operator for school-wide musical)
Providing co-curricular experiences with outside stakeholders to foster global perspectives in our students (field trips, clinics, competitions and performance assessments)
Some of the funding will also go toward tuition for graduate classes and staff development for fine arts teachers, she said.
This is part of a larger story regarding schools in BCSD to receive these grants. For more information, click here.