The Friday Five

Program Choice applications for the 2025-26 school year will be open from October 17, 2024 to Sunday, December 15, 2024. Parent notification of placement will occur in the online family dashboard the week of February 3, 2025. Parents will have until Monday, Feb 17, 2025 to make a decision and accept a seat in their online dashboard. Any seats not accepted within this window will be forfeited to waitlisted students. 

 

Demand for CCS Program Choice currently exceeds seat availability. A randomized lottery is used to select students for placement. Notifications of placement are sent in February to the families of all applicants. Students who are not admitted at the end of the application period shall be placed on a waiting list in the order determined by the randomized lottery. Students shall be admitted from the waiting list as space becomes available, up to the first student school day in the order he/she appears on the waiting list. 

Next week, October 14-18, we are excited to celebrate National School Lunch Week! Join us as we highlight the importance of nutritious school meals and recognize the hard work of our dedicated nutrition staff. Please see below for downloadable and printable school lunch week coloring and activity pages.

The complete 2024-25 academic calendars are available for download.

Over the next few months, elementary schools across the district will hold open house events for parents of rising kindergarten students interested in program offerings. Scheduled events include:

Cabarrus County Schools will host its 3rd annual Futures Fair at the Cabarrus Arena and Event Center on Thursday, October 17th from 6:00-8:00 P.M. In conjunction with the annual Program Choice Fair for specialized programming, this year’s event will again include military and career recruiters, as well as more than 100 college representatives under one roof.

The Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office will host their annual Bike Rodeo on October 19th from 2-4 P.M. at Concord Fire Station #12, 3300 Roberta Road, Concord, 28027. For more information, contact Deputy Camille at 704-920-3086. Click here to register: Bike Rodeo Registration

Cabarrus County Schools will be co-hosting a free webinar with The College Funding Coach® on October 30th at 7:00pm. This virtual event is for any family wanting to learn how to pay for college.

 

The College Funding Coach® was founded in 2002 to help families better understand the complexities of paying for college and how to make higher education more affordable. Since that time, The College Funding Coach® team has been on a mission to help families save on the high cost of higher education. They have established an approach that helps parents understand the college funding process, reduce their out-of-pocket expenses, and balance the challenge of saving for college and retirement simultaneously.

 

This is a free educational event. Please register by clicking HERE, or you can use the links found in the flyer attached to this post. 

CCS Families of juniors and seniors:

Cabarrus County Schools will be hosting an in-person session with College Foundation of North Carolina on November 19th at 6:30 pm at Jay M Robinson High School. This event is intended for parents of juniors or seniors in high school regarding how to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and other important financial aid and scholarship resources. We hope to see you there!