Please check out the July back-to-school edition of the CCSD Connections newsletter online here, which includes important checklist information to help you prepare for the first day of school on Friday, Aug. 1 (open house/walk-through dates, school supply lists, and more). Thank you to this month's newsletter sponsor, Credit Union of Georgia, a CCSD Partner.
The Cherokee County School District has earned top national honors for its program to feed students nutritious and delicious meals over summer break! The excellence of CCSD’s program earned the USDA’s Gold-level Turnip the Beet Award – only 10 school districts from Georgia achieved this highest-level recognition, and fewer than 100 are honored nationally each year.
The Cherokee County School District today congratulated the winners of the fourth annual Transportation Employee of the Year Awards, recognizing the best among its talented and dedicated team of school bus drivers. The awards recognize an outstanding school bus driver from each Innovation Zone (high school and feeder middle and elementary schools) and one from CCSD’s team of Special Education drivers; from this group, one overall CCSD winner is selected.
The Cherokee County School Board at its regular meeting and work session on Thursday, June 12, 2025, heard a report on efforts to further improve teaching and learning for next school year and appointed new school and district leaders.
More than 2,600 CCSD teachers, instructional coaches and district specialists received initial training this week on the new ELA and Math instructional resources that will be used in our classrooms starting in August!
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