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Anne Buechler, a longtime teacher and school administrator, has been named director of admission at Davidson Day School, the school announced Friday. Mrs. Buechler is now a language arts teacher and sports coach at the school. She’ll start the new job at the end of the school year.

Sawyer Bowman, a ninth-grader at Woodlawn School, won a $1,000 prize and earned a visit from the C-SPAN bus (at right) for his recent documentary on Flint, Mich.
Sawyer, the son of Dwayne and Karen Bowman, spends time most summers in Flint, visiting his mother’s relatives. Watching the town slowly decline due to the shuttering of […]

A gymnasium addition would link the existing school to the old gym, which would become a cafeteria. For a larger version, CLICK HERE>

Davidson and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials on Tuesday unveiled a $7.6 million proposal to jointly renovate and expand Davidson IB Middle School, at 251 South St. In a presentation at the […]

Ciara Conway (at right) turned her passion for origami into award-winning success at the North Carolina State Math Fair.  That makes the fifth year in a row that Davidson Elementary has placed in the top two at state.  We also bring you news of a community garden launched by students at Davidson IB Middle, plus Woodlawn students who are advancing to National History Day […]

Did you happen to notice all the kids in blue t-shirts running the Day Care Dash at Town Day?  They were Davidson Elementary students who have earned membership in the school’s marathon club by running lots and lots of laps at recess.  Learn more about their achievements, find out how much money Davidson IB raised during […]

“Why are we here?” asked Bonnie Cotter, Head of School at Davidson Day.
“To get a gym!” yelled a member of the assembled student body.  And that was just about right, as the school was gathered Friday to break ground for a new $2 million arts and athletics center.
Ms. Cotter invited a representative of the three school […]

A variety of local schools, organizations and the town Parks & Recreation Department are offering summer camps this year. Here’s a partial listing, based on information submitted to DavidsonNews.net. TO SEE THE LIST, CLICK HERE>
If you operate a camp that still has space and you’d like to add to our list, send an email to […]

Which country has the world’s largest Muslim population? The port of Rotterdam is built on the delta of which major European river? Those are the kinds of questions Aidan Berkey has become a whiz at answering. The eighth-grader represented Davidson’s Woodlawn School at the state geography bee, where he placed second, making him North […]

Mecklenburg County was under a tornado warning by the National Weather Service until 12:30 p.m. today. There was no immediate danger, but the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools activated safety plans, which included moving students out of mobile classrooms. At 1 p.m., the system said the alert had been lifted and said students would be dismissed according to […]

Two Davidson schools are involved in projects this April designed to provoke comment and raise public awareness. Davidson IB Middle students will walk laps around the South Street baseball field April 26 in silence, without water and without shoes, to draw attention to the plight of atrocity victims and refugees in the Darfur region […]