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Lowcountry families have many top-quality options for their children’s education. Experienced administrators, passionate teachers and motivated peers make the difference for students. This section celebrates first-class centers of learning in Bluffton and on Hilton Head Island.
ST. FRANCIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL
AMAZING CREATIONS
Amazing Creations is a licensed child-care center in Bluffton. Business partners (and mother-daughter team) Marsha Davis and Cathy Stevens opened the school with a dream and a promise to provide a loving, nurturing, learning environment so parents could go to work without any worries. The center has grown from a licensing capacity of 75 to 389 students. Amazing Creations serves children 6 weeks though Pre-K, and has an afterschool program for elementary school students. Amazing Creations has served the community since 1998 and looks forward to many more years. COMMUNITY OUTREACH: Amazing Creations Preschool is proud to help others in the community. The school has adopted the Seniors in the Memory Care Unit at Sprenger Health. The school has held food drives for Bluffton Self Help, and its favorite charity is St. Jude Children’s Hospital. This year alone, the children raised $8,500 during a Trike a Thon.
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For the past 25 years, St. Francis Catholic School, a fully Cognia-accredited parochial Catholic school for students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, has provided an excellent educational environment for all its students. St. Francis Catholic School’s mission is to nurture students’ spiritual and intellectual growth in a Catholic community committed to academic excellence, with a focus on faith formation, quality academics and community. The school offers a variety of opportunities and enrichment activities for students and helps students mature in their faith through participation in the sacramental life of the Church. St. Francis strives to develop each child’s intellect and motivate the child to action and service. St. Francis Catholic School works with children and their families towards the goal that every graduate is a young adult characterized as an individual of faith, integrity and scholarship.
