Attendance Awareness Month

Our attendance, guidance, and administration offices would like all Crayton families to come to school everyday possible, barring sickness.  It is vital to our children's development and social-emotional wellbeing to come to school.  

Attendance Tips can found here

Attendace Awareness Incentive Week can be found here

Former NBA player and LA Lakers legend Magic Johnson on the importance of school attandance.

Football Home Game Tickets 

All tickets for Crayton Football games must be purchased online here.  There will also be a permanent link on the left hand side of this website.  Go Cavs!

Virtual Open House

Our Virtual Open House begins this evening, allowing you to meet all of our teachers and other personnel. You can acess all of our teacher videos vie the following link:

Open House Flipgrid

Hi Crayton Families!

We're excited to see our students next week. We have lots of new families so we wanted to share a few reminders.

Crayton runs a "rolling bell schedule" so we start with A block on Monday, B Block on Tuesday, etc. So on Wednesday, the first day of school, students will start with their C Block. On their schedule, this is listed as 46P, 47P, or 48P depending on their grade.

A bell schedule will be shared next week, but students should plan to arrive at school no later than 8:25. Our first class begins at 8:30 and we begin dismissal at 3:45.

Students enrolled in Early Bird PE for first semester will begin on Monday, August 23rd at 7:30am.

We have a tour video and a car loop procedure video on the website above.

See you next week!

8th Grade Promotion Ceremony

We had a great promotion celebration yesterday for our 8th graders.  Sorry we could not invite parents but here is a link to the photos: Google Drive Photos

Your student likely has multiple photos grouped together, feel free to download them all!  Have a great summer!

Material Collection and End of Year Information

Here is a flyer about how laptops and other materials will be collected as the school year winds down.  In person students will turn in on the 7th, while virtual, eLearning, and all other students including those absent on the 7th will come on the 14th of June for a drive thru drop-off.

Stop the Slide

There will be a Zoom meeting hosted by  on Tuesday, June 1st from 5:30-6:30 by the Richland One A.C. Flora cluster of schools about how to prevent the "summer slide" and how to encourage summer learning.  For more information, see this flyer

8th Grade End-of-Year Celebration info

Here you will find a letter from Principal Burns concerning our efforts to celebrate the acheivements of our 8th graders on June 9th.  

End-Of-Course and State Testing

Virtual and eLearning parents must email michelle.coleman@richlandone.org by Wednesday, May 12th if they would like to come to campus and take any of the following exams:

May 20 - SCREADY Writing grades 6-8

May 21 - SCREADY Reading grades 6-8

May 26 - SCREADY Math grades 6-8

May 28 - SCPASS  Science grade 6

June 3 - Algebra I EOCEP grades 7-8

NJHS Ceremony - Live on Facebook

Good morning families of National Junior Honors Society students.  This year the ceremony is a little different because of COVID-19 but you can watch your student receive their certificate on our FB page.  We will begin at approximately 9:00am

UPDATE: Photos of the students can be viewed and downloaded at this link: NJHS Photos

tip: if you click the thumbnail icon in the top right (looks like a 2x3 window) you can see larger photos of each to find your student.

Crayton Middle Facebook

Outdoor Chorus Concert

Our students and staff have been hard at work to prepare an outdoor choral performance, Thursday June 3. Due to District COVID-19 Protocols unfortunately we cannot invite parents and friends onto campus to watch our performance live. However, each grade level's performance will be recorded and Live Streamed on Crayton's Facebook Page at the times listed below!

If there is inclimate weather, the scheduled make up day will be Friday June 4.

Elective Choices for Rising 7th and 8th Graders

If you student attends Crayton in person, they will make their selections in the library the 21st or 22nd.  If your student attends virtually they will be sent a TEAMS chat or call beginning the 23rd.  Here is a PowerPoint with more information.

Spring - Summer Football Calendar

April - August Crayton Football Schedule

Summer Volleyball Practice Schedules

    June                   July

Rising 6th Grader Information

Attention parents of rising 6th grade students. Scheduling information for the 21-22 school year was mailed home this week. Please be on the lookout for this important information.

Spring and Summer Football/Volleyball Information 

Spring and Summer practices for Crayton football and Volleyball are rapidly approaching. In order for your student to participate  in spring practices, summer practices, tryouts or any athletic activity, all athletes must have an up-to-date physical exam form along with all other require forms on the Planet High School website. The physical exam form must be completed and dated on or after April 1, 2021 of this school year to be valid for the spring, summer and next school year. Please see the link below for all relevant information and needed forms. Spring and Summer practice schedules will be available on the website April 19, 2021.

Planet HS Directions

to be filled out by physician:

Health History Form 

Physical Form

Urgent Concerning Pandemic EBT Cards.

State agencies are working to provide Pandemic EBT benefits to qualifying children across South Carolina. All households with potentially eligible students are strongly encouraged to validate their address in the DSS P-EBT Address Portal on or before March 19, 2021. The P-EBT Address Portal is located on the DSS website and here. You will need your Student Last Name, Date of Birth, Student ID, School District and School Name. The student ID is the same as your students Mastry Connect log in or contact the school if you need assistance.

Athletic Links

Before participation in tryouts, practices or any athletic event, all athletes must have an up-to-date physical exam form along with all other require forms on the Planet High school website which will need to be renewed each year.  They can be found here:

Athletic Forms and Information

Gifted and Talented Artistic Auditions 

The 2021 Gifted and Talented Artistic Auditions will be held virtually for grade 5-11 students intested in gifted and talented dance and theater. The deadline is March 19, 2021.

GT Artistic Information Brochure

Theatre 8th through 11th Grade Student Spring 2021 Audition Procedures

Theatre 5th through 7th Grade Student Spring 2021 Audition Procedures

Dance 8th through 11th Grade Student Spring 2021 Audition Procedures

Dance 5th through 7th Grade Student Spring 2021 Audition Procedures

Afternoon Pick-up

The traffic route in the afternoon has not changed, but there is a new safety measure.  To request your child out of the building you will need to scan our QR code (see the video above).  You do not need to download an app, most smartphones will read a QR code from your camera application.  Here is a practice QR code that should take you to our district website:

How To Access TEAMS Day One

Accessing TEAMS Student Link

We are so excited to welcome our Cavaliers to the first day of school, virtually!  Above you will find a Youtube video explaining the process of accessing their classrooms.  Student computers that cannot access Youtube should use the second link.  If your student does not know the account password, please call Crayton at 803-738-7224 for assistance.  

Technical Support for eLearning

The Information Technology (IT) Department will provide technical support to all staff, student and parents of Richland School District 1 on eLearning Days. The IT support Team can be reached by calling 803-231-7436. This number will be active Monday through Friday from the hours of 7 am to 5 pm. 

Congratulations to Crayton for becoming redesignated on October 24, 2019, as a Schools to Watch® school, an initiative launched by the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform. Crayton has met the three criteria to become a high-performing middle-grades school. We are academically excellent, developmentally responsive and socially equitable. Congratulations to all the faculty, staff and students for achieving this level of performance. For more information about this award, please visit the following site: http://middlegradesforum.org/