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Below are lists of projects, items, volunteer, and support opportunities for local community members, churches, businesses, or other organizations to initiate, support, or fund in our schools. Click the arrows to the right of the school name to see the lists.

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Specialized Schools

  • NEW SCHOOL COMING SOON

    Physical Needs:

    Dress-up/ Costumes

    Celebration items for students

    Teacher appreciation items

    Children’s Books

    Career Centers Play Items

    Support:

    Guest Readers

    Campus landscape and clean up

    Volunteers for Special Projects

  • Opening in Fall of 2026, the Early Learning Academy will welcome our youngest community members into its specialized Pre-K programs! Preparing our community’s youngest learners for Kindergarten!

  • Physical Needs:

    • New sound system for the auditorium ($2,500)

    Support:

  • White Plains Academy (WPA) in Algood, TN, serves as a specialized alternative 5-12 school for PCSS, focusing on personalized education, social-emotional development, and behavioral improvement.

  • Physical Needs:

    Coming soon!!

    Support:

  • Vital is a specialized virtual academy (online) in the Putnam County School System where a student's educational experience is tailored to meet his/her unique strengths, needs, and goals.

Elementary

  • Physical Needs:

    • Playground Storage Shelves

    • Cafeteria Common Space Organizer

    Support:

    • Landscaping Help

  • Physical:

    Security window treatments

    Service:

    Landscaping clean up

    Repaint the dumpsters

    Classroom and hallway painting

    Chip or Pave the gravel parking lot at the gym

  • Physical:

    Teacher Appreciation Lunch

    Service:

  • Physical Needs:

    • Sponsorship for 15 Students in Music Ensemble - $75/ fee per student

    • Guitar Wall Rack for class guitar set (3 racks needed)

    • Enya Soprano Ukulele Set for Class Ukulele (24 needed, est. $1560)

    Support:

    • Sensory Playground Repainting

  • Physical Needs:

    • Student Lunch Debt Payment

    • Snacks for the Counseling office

    • Shoes Store gift cards for students who need new shoes.

  • Physical Needs:

    • Art Supplies

    • Music Royalty Fees for Music Program ($600)

    • New Tetherball and court

    • Sports balls for the playground

    • New Playground equipment

    Support:

    • Playground- Repaint equipment, and general grounds clean-up

    • Landscaping updates in front of the building.

    • Resurface/ paint the blacktop area by the gym

    • Repairs or replace the front canopy at the front of the building.

  • Physical Needs:

    • New Playground Equipment

    • Clear Plastic Drawstring Bags

    • 16ft Cool Runner Jump Rope for double duch

    • Hand Drums with wooden frame

    • Vevor 3ft trampoline 36”

    • Swimsuits and Towels for 2nd Grade YMCA Swimming Lessons

    Support:

    • Community Garden Support

    • Campus Clean-up from school to the AG space

  • Physical Needs:

    • 10 Playground Basketballs

    • 10 Playground Soccerballs

    • 10 Playground Kickballs

    • Elementary-Sized Backpack

    • Shoe store gift cards for students who need shoes

    Support:

    • Grounds Clean-up: landscaping needs trimming, weeding and general clean up

    • Playground equipment needs repainting

  • Physical:

    • Alternative substrate for playground (Turf, rubber mulch, poured in place etc)

    • Create a kindergarten "woods area"

    • Oversized safety planters for the front of school

    • trees for playground (outside of the fence)

    Support:

    • Landscaping

    • Trash pickup (repeated monthly)

    • Paint classrooms

  • Physical:

    • Portable soccer goals

    • Waterproof storage bin

    • Clothing rack for lost and found

    • Assorted balls for playground

    Support:

    • Summer cleanup

    • Tree planting

    • Tree removal

  • Physical:

    • Playground Balls

    Support:

    • Trim Bushes

    • Clean Up Flower Beds

    • Power Wash Concrete

Middle School

  • Physical Needs:

    • 2 Vewsonic Boards

    • Outdoor 9-Square Playground Equipment

    Support:

    • Campus Beautification

    • Painting for hallways

  • Physical:

    Grade Level Bulletin Boards

    Classroom Chairs

    Support:

    Grade Level Hallway Painting

    Landscaping

  • Physical Needs:

    • Chicken Coop

    • Outdoor Games

    • Additional hallway cameras

    • Large Carts

    • Airtags for carts

    • Signage for outside of the building

    • STEM equipment

    • Student incentives

    • Teacher incentives (gift baskets/ gift cards)

    Support:

    • Career Reps for Career Day

    • Painting Gym

    • Mulch/ Turf Playground

    • Paint Bathrooms

    • Front entrance beautification

    • Flowbed upkeep

    • Digital board for Student dismissal

    • Little Pantry Sponsors

  • Item description

High School

  • Physical Needs:

    • View Sonic Boards

    • New sound system in the Gym ($20,000-$30,000)

    • Lighting under the awnings at each entrance and the teacher parking lot

    • Updated signage for classrooms and offices

    • Seating and carpet in the Auditorium

    • 4 MAC Desktops for the Library

    • Outdoor benches in front of the building.

    • Enhance the seating and atmosphere of the patio area behind the Cafeteria.

    Support:

    • Painting Hallways/ Stairwells 

    • Painting Bathrooms

    • Campus Beautification

  • Physical Needs:

    • Marquee for school (approx $5000, labor has been donated)

    • Updated Sound System in the gym

    • Sound Boards for the Auditorium

    • Viewsonic Boards

    • Chromebooks

    • Folding while tables

    Support:

    • Student walkway improvements (tar and chip pathway)

    • Crosswalk to the Student Parking lot

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