Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

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Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
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Location
United States
District information
Type Public
GradesPreK-12
Established1909
SuperintendentRodney Trice
Students and staff
Students11,561
Staff2,000
Other information
Website https://www.chccs.org/
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Location of Chapel Hill in North Carolina
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Location of North Carolina within the United States

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) is a school district which educates over 12,000 students (pre-K through 12th grade) in the southeastern part of Orange County, North Carolina. Being near three major universities as well as the Research Triangle Park, it serves one of the best educated populations in the United States. It is the school district for most of Chapel Hill (except the small portion of Chapel Hill that is in Durham County) and all of Carrboro, including schools from elementary through high school. It is financed through property taxes, including a city supplement, as well as state and federal funds. The administrative center is located at Lincoln Center at 750 South Merritt Mill Road. Lincoln Center is the site of the former all-black high school. [1] Services are available for gifted, special needs, and limited English proficiency students. CHCCS has the Learning Environment for Advanced Programing (LEAP), which is an accelerated learning program from the 4th to 8th grades that teaches its students material that is ~1-2 years above their grade level. [2]

Contents

Elementary schools

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Northside Elementary School

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Middle schools

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Smith Middle School

High schools

The traditional high schools located in the District are:

Phoenix Academy High School is an alternative high school for students needing a different environment.

Academics

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School District has been called one of the top 37 school districts in the United States and the top performing school district in the Southeast United States. This is according to the criteria of student scores on the SAT, student participation in Advanced Placement courses, and the number of National Merit Scholars. [6]

The district is known for its high quality student scores, especially at the high school level. Two of the currently open high schools, Chapel Hill High and East Chapel Hill High, have been featured as some of the nation's best by the Newsweek Top 100 High Schools, as well as The Wall Street Journal (October 15, 1999). [7] Carrboro High School opened in 2007.

Approximately one-third of the K-12 student population is identified as eligible to receive gifted services.

A 2018 study found that the CHCCS school district has the second highest achievement gap between black and white students in the country. [8] [9]

References

  1. "Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Home" . Retrieved August 18, 2007.
  2. "Gifted Education / LEAP". www.chccs.org. Retrieved April 10, 2024.
  3. 1 2 "CHCCS program provides 'specialized programming' for gifted students, self-contains classes". CHCCS program provides 'specialized programming' for gifted students, self-contains classes -. Retrieved March 12, 2025.
  4. "District Map of Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools". Archived from the original on December 27, 2007. Retrieved August 18, 2007.
  5. Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (April 11, 2024). "Maps and Directions". Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  6. "Who We Are: The Facts and Figures". Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved March 8, 2008.
  7. "Orange County, NC: Education Statistics". Archived from the original on December 7, 2006. Retrieved December 9, 2006.
  8. Reardon, S.F.; Kalogrides, D.; Shores, K. (March 2018). The Geography of Racial/Ethnic Test Score Gaps (PDF). Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis (Report). Stanford University. Retrieved April 6, 2025.
  9. Horton, Ethan E. (August 22, 2023). "Bridging the Gap combats CHCCS racial achievement gap, supports descendants of enslaved people". Daily Tarheel. Chapel Hill. Retrieved April 6, 2025.