CMS Superintendent, Dr. Clayton Wilcox
Dr. Clayton Wilcox, superintendent at CMS
The 2018-2019 school
year began Aug. 27 and we
were ready for it! Teaching and
learning began on the first day.
This is going to be a great year
in CMS.
We want our schools to
be the schools of choice and
we want people to feel well-
served. Based on the strong
opening week, we could exceed
expectations.
Our enrollment is growing –
as of Aug. 14, we had more than
148,000 students enrolled. We
know enrollments will continue
in the first weeks of school,
based on past experience, so we
think this number could grow.
There’s a lot that is new this
year. Some highlights:
New and reopened schools
We’re opening three schools:
Charlotte East Language Academy, Villa Heights Elementary School, and
Wilson Middle School. In addition, we have renovated and improved 105
schools.
Charlotte East Language Academy is a new, 54-classroom K-8 Spanish
immersion school on the old Eastland Mall site. It will reduce overcrowding at
Albemarle Road elementary and middle schools and will make the Spanish-
immersion option available to more students.
Villa Heights Elementary will serve students in kindergarten through
fourth grade, expanding to fifth grade during the 2019-2020 academic year.
Wilson STEM Academy will reopen as a middle school offering a computer
-science immersion magnet program. It will absorb the middle school
students formerly assigned to Reid Park and Westerly Hills; these two schools
are being converted from K-8 schools to elementary schools.
New programs
In all, 87 schools will have new boundaries or magnet school programs.
This will affect about 3,700 students -- 2,100 in elementary school, 730 in
middle school and 970 in high school.
The schools with new magnet programs are:
• Bruns (Environmental Sustainability)
• Charlotte East (Language Immersion)
• Crestdale Middle (Visual/Performing Arts)
• Eastway Middle (Leadership)
• Greenway Park (Creative Arts and Science)
• Harding (STEM Expansion)
• Long C