Please check out the back-to-school edition of our CCSD Connections newsletter online here, which includes an overview of what’s new this school year, important checklist information to help families prepare for the first day of school on Aug. 3, the link to our annual Class Act magazine, and much more. We can't wait to welcome our students back to learn more, grow more, and achieve more in our classrooms than they could anywhere else! Thank you to this month's newsletter sponsor, Credit Union of Georgia, a CCSD Partner. #CCSDElevateTheExcellence #CCSD1stDay2026
Join our CCSD family as a bus driver and help our students learn more, grow more, and achieve more! You can learn more at one of our summer job fairs -- with options to attend in person and virtually.
CCSD's Transportation Department spends the summer break getting its fleet of almost 500 big yellow buses inspected and ready for another 4.9 million miles on Cherokee County roads. The Georgia Department of Public Safety's Motor Carrier Compliance division has had officers at CCSD bus garages this week conducting annual safety inspections to get each bus checked out and ready for the 2026-27 school year.
Cherokee County School District talent took the stage at Carnegie Hall this month! Creekview High School teacher Scott Martin, the school’s choral director, made his Carnegie Hall conducting debut for performances by the Cherokee Chorale community chorus. Creekview High School chorus students joined the Chorale for the performance of Elaine Hagenberg’s “Illuminare,” which included alumnae from all six CCSD high schools, and Creekland Middle School teacher Laura B. Martin, the school’s choral director and wife of Mr. Martin.
Did you miss our ribbon-cutting and open house for the new home of Cherokee High School? You can watch this quick video tour for a peek inside … and/or you can come to our “second look” open house event on Saturday, July 18!
The Cherokee County School Board at its regular meeting on Thursday, June 18, 2026, took the next step toward adopting a five-year community-inspired strategic plan including projects to be funded by the proposed renewal of the Education-SPLOST.
Feedback from parents, employees, students, and community members informed the Elevate 2032 long-range strategic plan and the 1% Ed-SPLOST (Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax) project list presented to the Board on Thursday.
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