Discovery Virtual Principal Kari Miller has been selected to lead Bethesda Elementary School and replace Jill Justus, who was chosen to open a new school in the Spring Hill area.

With its sights on the future, the Franklin Special School District entered into a whole new dimension Friday.

Saahil Arun

Hannah Bhattacharya, a senior at Ravenwood High School, was selected to receive a $2,500 STAR Scholarship from the P.E.O. Sisterhood, per a press release. 

Mill Creek Elementary School Assistant Principal Drew Perry will be taking over the leadership role for Scales Elementary School later this summer, as announced Thursday through InFocus.

Battle Ground Academy held its commencement last Saturday, celebrating the graduation of 92 students.

A veteran educator with more than a decade of school administrative experience has been named the new principal of Thompson’s Station Elementary School. 

On Wednesday, the Tennessee Supreme Court decided that Gov. Bill Lee’s Education Savings Account program is constitutional after it was held up in court for two years.

Bishop J. Mark Spalding will be joined by church, community and civic leaders for the official groundbreaking for St. Michael Academy, the first regional Catholic elementary school in the Diocese of Nashville.

Page Middle School Assistant Principal Quen Williams will be moving 2½ miles up the road next year to lead Creekside Elementary. 

On the morning of Monday, May 2, Ravenwood High School senior Jadon Moore found the N-word entered as the username on his assigned school computer, an incident that set off a conversation about race, accountability and action in Williamson County Schools.

Father Ryan High School Principal Paul Davis has been selected as the school’s new president, according to Bill Stejskal, chairman of the Father Ryan Board of Trustees, per a release. 

Clark Vaughn

Brentwood Middle School sixth graders, in particular, punched way outside their league, in the annual question-and-answer fest.

Nolensville Elementary Assistant Principal Kim Steinle has been promoted to principal of the school, according to a release from Williamson County Schools. 

Three Ravenwood High students are making history in the robotics world by bringing home the school's first national championship title, per inFocus. 

Seven Williamson County Schools high school students are among the small percentage who scored a perfect composite score on the ACT exam taken in March, per inFocus. 

A record 36 young men and women, making up eight teams of Brentwood Academy students, just returned from competing at the highest level of competition in robotics, per a press release. 

Belong Gaming Arenas, a subsidiary of global gaming and technology company Vindex, will form a partnership with Williamson County Schools to help establish scholastic esports programs and support the nationwide development of the amateur esports ecosystem, per a release. 

The Haley Sue Foundation awarded Brentwood High School senior Jacob Davis with the organization’s first ever Sibling Scholarship on Friday.

Several TV/Film students from Williamson County Schools are regional winners and in the running for national honors after the April 29 National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) Annual Midsouth Student Production Awards.

Two new Williamson County elementary schools have added principals, per inFocus. 

Self-organized teen JustServe Clubs from Ravenwood, Centennial, Brentwood, Nolensville and Page high schools are set to build bunk beds Saturday for the Nashville chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace.

The four incumbents from the Williamson County Board of Education who ran in Tuesday night’s Republican primaries will move on to face challengers in August after winning their district seats.

Ez El-Hulu

Lauren Surratt

Longtime educator and Thompson’s Station Elementary Principal Robert Bohrer will be moving across the county to lead Hillsboro K-8 next year.

Below is a questionnaire from WCS District 12 school board candidate Jamie Lima:

Below is a questionnaire from WCS District 12 school board candidate Drason Beasley:

Two WCS high school robotics teams will hit the world stage as they compete in the VEX Robotics World Championship in Dallas at the beginning of May, per inFocus. 

Below is a questionnaire from WCS District 10 school board candidate Ali Adair:

Below is a questionnaire from WCS District 10 school board candidate Eric Welch:

Below is a questionnaire from WCS District 8 school board candidate Donna Clements:

Below is a questionnaire from WCS District 8 school board candidate Shauna Graham:

Below is a questionnaire from WCS District 4 school board candidate Josh Brown:

Below is a questionnaire from WCS District 4 school board candidate Elliott Franklin:

With Williamson County’s May 3 primary just over a week away, candidates for the six seats of the Board of Education have been busy campaigning — especially those eight candidates vying to win in contested primaries.

Addison Beasley

Franklin Road Academy recently established a new Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and hired Stacey Banks-Houston to serve as the director and the newest member of the school’s senior leadership team, per a release. 

In perhaps one of their easier decisions of late, members of the Williamson County Board of Education voted unanimously on a proposal that would significantly lessen out-of-county tuition for full-time employees in Williamson County Schools and would eventually eliminate it.

Ally Brown

Williamson County School Board Chair and District 12 representative, Nancy Garrett, officially launched her campaign Monday seeking re-election for another four-year term on the Board, per a release. 

Two high schools in the Williamson County Schools district will be presenting their spring musicals this weekend.