Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools is one of two public schools systems in Orange County. The system is run by the CHCCS Board of Education, which is comprised of seven elected officials who hold four-year terms. Under the board is the superintendent. The current superintendent is Tom Forcella.
The district includes 11 elementary schools, four middle schools, four high schools, a middle college with Durham Technical Community College and a school for children at UNC Hospitals. These schools serve more than 12,000 students across Orange County.
Learn more about the district's Board of Education here.
Browse board meeting agendas and videos here.
East Chapel Hill High School has a 33 percent achievement gap on state proficiency exams between historically underserved and non-underserved students.
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East Chapel Hill High School has a 33 percent achievement gap on state proficiency exams between historically underserved and non-underserved students.
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"It's a huge undertaking, but the demands being made on schools today are greater than ever before in the history of this country,” said Stephen Halkiotis, chairperson of the Orange County Schools Board of Education
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Educators and supporters from across the state assembled in Raleigh on Wednesday for a March for Students and Rally for Respect. Due to the massive expected teacher absences, dozens of school districts across the state closed on May 16, leaving about 68 percent of North Carolina’s public school students out of class for the day. Their absence from work was certainly noted, but educators wanted their appeals to N.C. legislators to be just as affecting. A few shared their signs, their stories and their desired results of the rally with us.
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Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools are offering free breakfast and lunch at certain locations to help low-income families on the day of the teacher walkout, but the school closing still presents problems.
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Everything that combines fun and science, from liquid nitrogen ice cream to lessons on aliens and snot, could be found in Phillips Hall on Tuesday during the first-ever Science is Awesome Outreach Day. Over 300 fourth-grade students from Carrboro Elementary School, Frank Porter Graham Bilingüe School and Northside Elementary School came to campus to participate in the event that was hosted by the UNC Department of Physics and Astronomy. The event was geared toward encouraging students at these three Title I schools to consider careers in STEM fields and to get them excited about science.
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Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools highlight plans for new construction and new learning approaches at their "state-of-the-schools" address.
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School bus drivers in North Carolina are now required to carry a medical card in addition to their license at all times. But, bus drivers also must pass and pay for a medical exam, which isn't cheap. That's why Orange County schools are stepping up.
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The Brown v. the Board of Education Supreme Court decision was made in 1954, but the Chapel Hill school board didn’t start desegregating schools until 1960, and desegregation wasn’t complete in Chapel Hill until the summer of 1966. “Even in progressive Chapel Hill and Carrboro, it wasn’t smooth and some very hurtful things happened,” said Mia Burroughs, a member of the Orange County Board of Commissioners.
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“The challenge right now is that we have significant need for renovations at our elementary school but no place to put students while we do that work,” said Rani Dasi, president of Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education.
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Members of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools community met Sunday to organize a walkout protesting gun violence on March 14 at 9:55 a.m. The walkout will last 17 minutes, with each minute representing one of the 17 students killed during the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. earlier this month.
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Personnel changes are being finalized as the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School District gets into the second half of the 2017-18 school year.
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"We were supposed to come in and do this class size fix, but the Republicans constructed the bill so that it had poison pill provisions,” said N.C. Rep. Graig Meyer, D-Orange.
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Multiple cases of whooping cough have been reported at East Chapel Hill High and Chapel Hill High Schools.
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Resting in the neck of the woods of Carrboro is the Carolina North Forest, the last untouched forested land of the town -- but possibly not for long.
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The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools racial equity report card for the 2015-16 school year showed that 51.3 percent of short-term suspensions were black students, while only 23.6 percent were white.
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North Carolina received record snowfall in some parts of the state on Wednesday.
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Central North Carolina, including Orange County, is expected to receive two to four inches of snow Wednesday morning, according to a statement by the National Weather Service. The University has cancelled classes for Wednesday and before noon on Thursday.
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David Mason Jr. recalls walking every morning in the muddy, unpaved streets of the Northside neighborhood to attend class at Orange County Training School.
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Chapel Hill High’s student newspaper, the Proconian, will be going digital starting this year. The decision to move to an online platform was one of funding, time and ease of reaching readership.
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North Carolina school districts are facing a funding crisis. In Orange County, voters approved a $120 million-dollar bond in November 2016 to renovate several school buildings, but additional funding for teachers and new classrooms will be needed to comply with a proposed reduction in class sizes for kindergarten through third grade.
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