Our Mission

At Carter Community School, we seek to develop, nurture and nourish a learning environment where important, productive, and life-changing activities occur daily.

Our Vision

Carter Community School is committed to having all students achieve at or above grade level at all grades, annually. In order to ensure that all children are making continuous progress, the school will focus on closing the gaps between and among Carter Community students, and their counterparts in other educational settings.

Children will use creative ways to translate into real world settings, the skills that they have learned. This will make them become globally conscious, better decision makers who are connected to the learning that takes place in the school, and the community at large.

Our Goals

Carter will collaborate with community partners to achieve the following goals:

• To become an  Honor School of Excellence by 2010. This will be done by achieving high student performance on the North Carolina End of Grade Tests .
• To achieve Average Yearly Progress (AYP) annually as determined by No Child Left Behind legislation.
• To insure that all students are achieving at or above grade level, and showing continuous progress, by using standardized instruments to monitor children's progress.
   

Our Methods

• Develop a curriculum that is unique to Carter Community School: a curriculum that emphasizes the development of children's financial, technical and economic literacy;
• Recruit, hire, and retain highly qualified teachers in core subject areas in grades K-8;
• Daily integration of technology, character education, and leadership development as pillars for delivering instruction that is relevant to children's lives;
• Maintain small class sizes with a ratio of 17 to 1 in grades 4-8 and 20 to 2 in grades K-3;
  Increase the use of community resources and partners in the delivery of the Financial and Economic Literacy Curriculum for students in grades K-8;
• Provide extended day programs that tap into children's interests and areas of giftedness;
• Increase opportunities for physical and social development by expanding organized sports opportunities for all students. 

To these ends, Carter Community School has developed a curriculum, at the core of which is the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. This curriculum focuses on the development of economic and financially literate students. Students will be engaged in relevant learning experiences that will help them better understand the "why" behind what they are required to learn. Students will begin to see and make connections to the application of knowledge in the real world.
 

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