News & Updates

Greetings Families: Welcome to the CMS Virtual Middle School. I am so excited about this opportunity to work with students and parents to focus education. While the COVID-19 pandemic presents some challenges for schools, it also presented an opportunity to look at how we do education and how we can adjust some traditional things to ensure we meet […]

The CMS Foundation recently published “The Yearbook: Reflections on School During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” a digital snapshot of CMS during the 2020-2021 school year. Several magnet schools, staff members, students, and the School Choice team were featured in The Yearbook, in the “staff” section. Click here to read more about our unusual year!

At the CMS Board of Education meeting on July 13, 2021, Tonya Faison was named the principal at the Virtual Middle School. Faison has been the principal at James Martin Middle since 2014. She was the principal at Hawthorne Academy of Health Sciences from 2013 to 2014. During her time in Wayne County Public Schools, […]

At the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education meeting on July 13, 2021, Marc Angerer was named the principal at South Mecklenburg High. He has been the principal at Bruns Avenue Elementary since 2017. Angerer was a principal at Carmel Middle from 2008 to 2017. He was an assistant principal at Wilson Middle from 2007 to 2008 […]

The 3rd graders at Rea Farms STEAM Academy closed out the school year in a major way!  They sprang into action to help raise funds to build a well in Africa!Here’s why- Nearly one billion people do not have access to clean, safe water – that’s the equivalent of 1 in 8 people on the […]

Please join the Office of Student Assignment and School Choice as it engages the community to inform the future of E.E. Waddell, which will reopen as a magnet high school in 2022-23.  Several scenarios for the school are being considered, and Tuesday’s session is an opportunity for you to learn more about each scenario for […]

The Office of Student Assignment and School Choice invites you to a community engagement session to discuss several potential scenarios for the opening of Lincoln Heights Elementary in 2022-23.  Scenarios were informed by community input gathered after the March community engagement session.  Your feedback during the May 13 session will help inform the recommendation for […]

Dr. Kevin Woods was named principal at Randolph Middle School, an IB World School, at the CMS Board of Education meeting on April 27, 2021. He has been principal at Crown Point Elementary since 2018. Dr. Woods was also principal at John Motley Morehead STEM Academy from 2014 to 2018 and Windsor Park Elementary from […]

From the CMS website: ​The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education voted April 13, 2021, to rename Barringer Academic Center for Charles H. Parker, a late local activist who helped build the West Boulevard community. It is the second vote this year to change schools named for people with racist connections or backgrounds. Starting next school year, […]