Names
submitted for new elementary schools in North Myrtle Beach
Names for three new North Myrtle Beach elementary schools were recommended
to the Horry County school board Monday night, although no vote was taken.
The names are Ocean Drive Elementary
School for what is now North Myrtle Beach Primary School, Riverside Elementary
School for North Myrtle Beach Elementary School and Waterway Elementary School
for North Myrtle Beach Intermediate School.
Students in the North Myrtle Beach
attendance area attend the same primary, elementary and intermediate school,
but the primary school (pre-kindergarten through first grade) and elementary
school (grades two and three) are overcrowded, while the intermediate school
(grades four and five) has room to spare. The three schools are being converted
to K-5 schools to better utilize the facilities, which will open in their new
configuration in the fall.
A naming committee, which included
representatives from each school’s area, unanimously chose the names, said Joe
Burch, Horry County Schools planner. He said the Ocean Drive name is a
throwback to a school that was in the area in the 1950s and ’60s, while
Riverside is the school closest to the Waccamaw River, and Waterway is the
closest to the Intracoastal Waterway.
The selection of school colors and
mascots has not been made, Burch said, but that will be discussed by the naming
committee, with input from the cluster’s school improvement councils and
advisory board.
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