Announcements

Spring 2022 State Testing Schedule

Dear Parents,

Listed below are dates for our 2022 state testing. Please review these dates carefully.

Should you have any questions, please contact Debbie Sanders, 864-355-1492   or by email dsanders@greenville.k12.sc.us.

  WEEK                                       Specific Date                                         Test and Group Testing

  Please consider donating to Elizabeth's Eden. You can find more details about the project on the Elizabeth's Eden website. 

Reporting COVID-19 Exposures and Positive Test Results 

Parents are asked to report any COVID-19 exposures, quarantines within the home, and positive test results to the school principal. 

Parents are strongly encouraged to screen their students daily, at home, for COVID-19 symptoms (see below). If a student takes a COVID-19 test because he/she is symptomatic, the student should not be physically present in school until the test results are returned.

Keep students at home if they present with any of the following symptoms:

• Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing -or –
• Loss of taste or smell -or –
• New or worsening cough

In order to return to school from this exclusion, student must provide one of the following:

• Return to school note from your student's medical provider indicating a medical evaluation has determined symptoms are related to another cause other than COVID-19 OR
• Documentation of a negative COVID-19 test.

Students are also required to exclude from school with one of the following symptoms but does not require COVID-19 medical clearance:

• Fever (100.4 or greater). Must be 24 hours fever free before returning to school. (this means without the use of fever reducing medications).
• Diarrhea (3 or more episodes of loose stools in a 24 hour period). Must be 24 hours diarrhea free before returning to school (this means without the use of diarrhea suppressing medication).
• Vomiting (2 or more times in a 24 hour period). Must be 24 hours without vomit and able to have 1 to 2 meals before returning to school (this means without the use of vomiting suppressing medications).

GCS COVID-19 Frequently Asked Questions

GCS COVID-19 Frequently Asked Questions (Spanish)

GCS Notification of Positive COVID-19 Cases

PTSA Membership Drive is now underway! 

Please join us in supporting Beck International Academy through PTSA Membership. We offer individual, parent/child, family, and faculty membership levels. To join, please visit our MemberHub store. If you prefer not to join online, you may print a copy of our paper membership form, which you may print, complete, and return to the school with your check payment. 

For more information about PTSA, please visit beckacademyptsa.weebly.com or email us at beckacademyptsa@gmail.com. Thank you for your support of Beck PTSA!

Free Meals for Students During the 2021-2022 SY - Due to a recent USDA waiver, all students will receive free meals during the 2021-2022 SY.

Free and Reduced Meal (FARMS) Applications- FARMS applications are still required to be made available to students. Free or Reduced meal status, determined by a FARMS application or Direct Certification by the SC Department of Education, is a requirement to receive the Pandemic EBT (P-EBT) cards that will be distributed by the SC Department of Social Services to eligible families. Paper FARMS applications will be sent to schools by August 2nd. Online FARMS applications are currently available on the FANS website.

• New to Greenville County School District
• Returning to Greenville County Schools
• Transferring to Beck Academy from another Greenville County School

Please use the link below to verify the middle school you are zoned for:

Find Your School

If you are zoned for Beck Academy, please use the link below to complete the enrollment/transfer process:

Enrollment

Registration for the 2022-2023 Extended Day Program is now available. Please visit the EDP page for more details and to download the registration forms.

Supply lists for 2021 - 2022.

6th grade

7th grade

8th grade

Parents, GCS Parent Backpack is replacing the Parent Portal. Parent Backpack allows you to access your child's grades, attendance and more. Clink on this link for instructions to set up your Parent Backpack account. 

Did you know you can pay for school meals, field trips, school fees, extended day program, and more from your computer or smartphone? You can even check your child's meal account balance and view items purchased. Visit My School Bucks to set up an account today!

You may now upload your Sports Physical to Planet HS!

See the Kickoff Letter and Getting Started Letter for more details and instructions!

You must have a sports physical on file before you can participate in any sport at Beck, including tryouts and conditioning. Sports physicals for the 21-22 school year must be dated after April 1, 2021. Click here to download the Sports Physical Form. 

Send questions about Beck athletics to Coach Spitzmiller @ wspitzmi@greenville.k12.sc.us. 

Want to make a difference in our school? Click here for Volunteer Opportunities.