Principal's Message

Excellence

by Brooke Frye, ECI Principal

 

Welcome back, Dawgs! It is my hope that our faculty, staff, and students have had a summer full of rest and relaxation, and that everyone is geared up for another successful year at ECI. A new school year always brings a fresh start, a blank slate, never forgetting how previous years have shaped us, and looking onward with refined goals to take on another year with grit and determination. The 2024-2025 school year at ECI proves to bring shifts in our administration team, new faces among our faculty, and a few facelifts to our facilities. In addition, we will enhance our focus of strengthening our community one student at a time through targeted remediation and acceleration of our students, personalized learning, data-driven instruction, and tailored professional learning to move the needle on student achievement and maximize our culture of excellence.

While we are set to make positive changes to several aspects of our school, the rich traditions and family atmosphere dating back for decades will always remain two constants that we pride ourselves on in this small corner of the county. Emanuel County Institute relies on its teachers, students, and stakeholders to maintain our strength of school pride and overall efforts towards excellence. We continue to make gains academically, our student athletes prove to be a successful in their respective programs, making playoffs runs year after year, and our student organizations consistently represent us well at the regional, state, and national levels of competition. Our students are the priority at ECI, and we will continue to always provide students with meaningful instruction, build relationships, and foster a love of learning from the moment they enter our doors in 6th grade until they walk across the stage as graduates of our school. 

Emanuel County Institute is more than a school building; it is a family. The students and teachers are the pillars, establishing a strong foundation for excellence, setting the bar high, and holding one another accountable. These firmly planted expectations have laid the groundwork for ECI to continue forward progress in the areas of academics, athletics, student organizations, and the overall well-being of our students. We encourage parents, community members, and other stakeholders to join us this school year in continuing the traditions of excellence at Emanuel County Institute.

Go Dawgs!