Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
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701 E. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Charlotte, North Carolina 28202 City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina |
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| District information | |
| Motto | "Reach Further" |
| Established | 1960 |
| Superintendent | Ann Blakeney Clark |
| Accreditation | Southern Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Schools | 159 |
| Budget | $1.4 billion |
| District ID | 3702970 |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 133,664 |
| Teachers | 8960+ |
| Student-teacher ratio | 15.31 |
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| Website | www |
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (abbreviated CMS) is a local education agency headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina and is the public school system for Mecklenburg County. With over 135,600 students enrolled, it is the second-largest school district in North Carolina and the eighteenth-largest in the nation. The system is best known nationally for its role as the respondent in the landmark 1971 Supreme Court decision Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, or school board, consists of 9 members—3 at-large and 6 from districts. Before 1995, the board had been elected entirely on an at-large basis, but this was changed after it was discovered nearly all of the board members lived in the eastern part of the county. Members serve staggered four-year terms; the at-large members are elected in the year before presidential elections and the district members are elected in the year after presidential elections. Although school board elections are nonpartisan, the district members are elected from the same districts as the county commissioners.
CMS operates 20 high schools, not including alternative schools or "schools-within-a-school". The following is a list of those high schools, divided by geographical region of the City of Charlotte, along with the year opened and mascot:
CMS also operates 94 elementary schools and 32 middle schools.
Several CMS high schools have been recognized by Newsweek as being among the 100 best high schools in the United States, a statistic based on the number of advanced classes that are offered to students.
During the 2006-2007 school year CMS students received $43.5 million in academic merit-based financial aid from universities and other organizations, and $12.1 million in athletic scholarships.
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