News & Updates

Monday, March 29, 6pm The Office of Student Assignment and School Choice invites you to an information session to kick off the district’s process to determine the future of E.E. Waddell HS.  The school, located in the southwestern part of the county, is most likely to be a magnet school serving the blue transportation zone.  […]

Wednesday, March 31, 6 p.m. The Office of Student Assignment and School Choice invites you to an information session to kick off the district’s process to determine the future of Lincoln Heights ES.  The school, located in central Mecklenburg County, is most likely to be a magnet school serving the violet transportation zone.  Please join […]

West Charlotte High School has been authorized by the International Baccalaureate Organization to offer the Middle Years Program to students in grade 9 and 10. West Charlotte was authorized for the IB Diploma Program in 2005 and has administered IB exams since 2007.

Lydia Fergison, recently named principal of the new North K-8 Language Academy, took a field trip this past week to explore the site of her brand new school, which is slated to open in August 2021. Fergison was named as the new principal of the North K-8 Language Academy during the CMS Board Meeting on […]

Lydia Fergison was named as the new principal of the North K-8 Language Academy during the CMS Board Meeting on Tuesday, January 12, 2021. She has been serving as the principal at Newell Elementary since 2015. Before that, she was the Assistant Principal at Albemarle Road Elementary from 2012 to 2015, an instructor at CPCC […]

Join us for a community engagement session for the North K-8 Language Academy at 5 p.m. tonight (December 21, 2020). Here’s the meeting link: https://cms-k12-nc-us.zoom.us/j/97824155590?pwd=dzg0enBxOVY0K1BZWUJnSXJlL2JIQT09 Meeting ID: 978 2415 5590 Passcode: 167567

Northwest School of the Arts students are nominees for regional Emmy Awards for the Disconnect and Drive public service campaign. One nomination is for public service and the other for original music, with winners announced in late January. Check out their work here: https://vimeo.com/398645678

ArtPop Street Gallery has announced its Class of 2021 and former Northwest School fo the Arts student Ella Mackinson was chosen as one of the artists. As in past years, the artists’ work will be plastered on billboards across the greater Charlotte area as well as on Uptown newspaper boxes and airport displays, totaling around […]

Nancy Bullard, science lab teacher and IB coordinator at Huntingtowne Farms Elementary, won a TikTok contest that will allow every N.C. elementary student to have a virtual science lesson with Emily Calandrelli of Emily’s Wonder Lab on Netflix. Bullard entered by uploading videos of herself performing experiments from the showThere were to be three school winners, but the top […]

Future enrollment and lottery application dates have been extended! If your child is not currently a CMS student, you can future enroll your child through December 13! You can access the list of necessary enrollment paperwork, along with the methods for submitting that paperwork, at https://www.cms.k12.nc.us/cmsdepartments/StudentPlacement/Pages/EnrollingYourStudent.aspx. Once your enrollment has been processed, you will receive […]