Celebrate your 8th grader with a special recognition ad in this year’s Pickens Junior High School yearbook! 🎓💙 Add photos and a personal message to commemorate this milestone and let your student know just how proud you are.

📅 Order deadline: November 1, 2026
Scan the QR code on the flyer for details and ordering information.

Yesterday, our PREP students were hard at work helping create shirts for PJHS! Our students helped with preparing the designs, pressing, checking, and organizing each shirt. They take great pride in their work, and they love helping serve Dragon Nation.

These projects give our students meaningful, hands-on experience while helping them develop valuable workplace skills such as teamwork, attention to detail, quality control, and responsibility. We are so proud of their hard work and thankful to PJHS and Coach Raymond for supporting our students and giving them the opportunity to learn, grow, and shine!

NEW for SY 2026-27! Online Payments for student meals are now available through the Infinite Campus Parent Portal.

Log into the parent portal, click the link for food service. This will take you to your children's accounts and show what their current balance is. From there you can add funds to their account and set up your payment method. Payments can be made with credit card or electronic check. Credit cards will include a processing fee. A minimal transaction fee of .35 cents will be added to each electronic check transaction. Parents are able to view student account balances, purchases and payment history online, and even receive low balance alerts, or enroll in autopay. You do not have to make prepayments to use many of these features.

Mypaymentsplus is no longer active for Pickens County Schools Food Service Meal payments. All account balances that appear when logging into Mypaymentsplus are reflective of the customer's ending balance from last school year. This balance was carried forward in each customer account as the year beginning balance in our new Infinite Campus Food Service point of sale software.

Pickens Junior Leadership Field Trip 🏌️‍♂️
Yesterday, the Pickens Junior Leadership class had an amazing opportunity to visit East Lake Golf Club for a valuable leadership experience. This trip would not have been possible without the support of so many people!

A special thank-you to Dr. Petti, Mr. Cronic, Coach Duncan, Coach Stout, Coach Whitmore, Tracey Hulsey, Ms. Coker, Todd Dobson, and the PGA for investing in our students and helping make this experience possible.

We are especially grateful to the PGA for partnering with Coach Duncan to create an experience that teaches our young leaders important lessons about leadership, opportunity, character, and perseverance.

Thank you to everyone who continues to believe in and support the Pickens Junior Leadership Program! We are proud of our students and the leaders they are becoming.

#PickensJuniorLeadership #EastLakeGolfClub #JuniorLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #StudentLeaders #PGA #PickensCounty #ELEVATE

📚✨ BOOKIN’ 9–5 | Thursday, September 3rd! ✨📚

We’re celebrating Dolly Parton, reading, and the magic of sharing a good book! 💕📖

Dress like Dolly! Think jeans and boots, denim, rhinestones, sparkles, or your own Dolly-inspired style! 🤠✨

Students and staff can also bring a gently used book (or books) to donate Thursday morning as we participate in a school-wide book exchange! During lunch, students will have the opportunity to choose a new-to-them book to take home and enjoy.

Let’s spread a little Dolly sparkle and a LOT of book love! 📚💕✨

SCHOOL PICTURE DAY IS FRIDAY!

School pictures will be taken Friday, August 21st.

Students will be bringing home an individualized picture slip with a QR code. Please keep this slip in a safe place! You’ll use the QR code to view your student’s pictures online approximately 2–3 weeks after Picture Day.

⚠️ Important: We receive only ONE individualized QR code slip per student, so please be sure to hang on to it until pictures are available.

Come ready to smile!

The 8th grade Dragons played an incredible game and BEAT Gilmer!!!!! Way to go players, cheerleaders, and coaches :) #ELEVATE

📸 Picture Day is Friday, August 21!

Be on the lookout for Picture Day flyers coming home tomorrow with all the details.

Mark your calendars and get ready to smile! 📸

Introducing the Say Something Anonymous Reporting System The Pickens County School District is committed to maintaining a safe learning environment for all students and staff. Through the Say Something Anonymous Reporting System (SS-ARS) from Sandy Hook Promise, students, staff, and families can confidentially report safety concerns 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The program teaches students how to recognize warning signs, tell a trusted adult, or submit an anonymous report through the hotline, mobile app, or website. Reports can include threats of violence, bullying, harassment, concerning social media posts, self-harm, substance abuse, weapons concerns, or any other troubling behavior. By speaking up when something doesn't seem right, our school community can help prevent incidents before they occur and ensure that individuals receive the support they need. For more information, please visit our website at https://www.pickens.k12.ga.us/o/pcs/page/anonymous-reporting-system

Welcome Back! To celebrate the start of an AWESOME school year, we will be having a spirit week next week. Please see the attached flyer for additional details.

PJHS is excited to recognize United Community Bank for its generous support of our attendance incentive program!

Thanks to their donation, each month we'll recognize students with perfect attendance by holding a drawing for a $50 gift card. One student from each grade level who had perfect attendance for the month will be selected as a winner.

We are thankful for community partners like United Community Bank who believe in our students and invest in programs that encourage their success. Their generosity helps us celebrate the positive choices our students make every day.

Thank you, United Community Bank, for supporting PJHS!

NEW for 2026-27! Online Payments are now available through the Infinite Campus Parent Portal Online payments are a simple, safe and secure way to make payments to your student's account 24 hours a day at your convenience. You can add payments through the Infinite Campus Parent Portal. Payments can be made with credit card or electronic check. Credit cards will include a processing fee. A minimal transaction fee of .35 cents will be added to each electronic check transaction. Parents are able to view student account balances, purchases and payment history online, and even receive low balance alerts, or enroll in autopay. You do not have to make prepayments to use many of these features. Login to your parent portal at: https://campus.pickens.k12.ga.us/campus/portal/pickens.jsp Once logged in go to Food Service on the left panel. If you are having difficulty logging in, please email parentportal@pickenscountyschools.org and include your name, your student's name and their date of birth.

We are proud to announce that Pickens Junior High School is a 2025-2026 National Beta School of Merit. The school earned this recognition by offering National Beta to all eligible grades on their campus.
The National Beta School of Merit award is given to honor a club’s dedication and commitment to academic excellence. To achieve this prestigious honor, a school must include members from all eligible grade levels in their Beta club. This year 6,103 clubs across the country received this award.
In a congratulatory letter to the school, Bobby Hart, CEO said “Thank you for your continued support of National Beta and commitment to developing future leaders!”
"Our students have worked extremely hard this year, volunteering in the community and building a Beta Club that will endure for years to come. Thank you to all involved for your dedication!"
-Dr. Kanyon Petti, Principal

Welcome to the PJ Family Mrs. Bradley!

Throwback to our PJHS Band and Chorus end-of-year Hangout night. These kids work so hard during the year as they work on personal musicianship, music literacy, and preparing repertoire for concerts. Here is a small glimpse of our performing arts students enjoying some well-deserved relaxation!

During the last week of school, Coach Stout and Coach Duncan organized PJ’s very first PJ Olympics, where each homeroom competed in a variety of events throughout the day. After a day full of teamwork, competition, and school spirit, Team France was crowned the inaugural 2026 PJ Olympics champion!

#PJNation

Ms. Perritt's Business/Computer Science students finished out the school year by creating business plans, then using the plans to create "Shark Tank" simulations with their classmates being the panelists. Great questions were asked and answered leading to multiple offers, much like the real "Shark Tank"!

#PJNation

Pickens Junior High Basic Ag would like to thank all the local businesses who participated in the cornhole board project "Building Community Support, One Board at a Time" this year. Hopkins Paving, Donna Enis with ETC Highlights, Josh Cantrell "Showtime" with GPW, The Ridge Contractors, Will Mathews with M&M Hauling, and ETC. We plan to continue and grow this program, so be on the look out next year if you would like to participate.