1.    We follow Lancaster County Schools on cancellations, delays, and early dismissals due to bad weather.

August

9-10      New Teacher Training (9:00 - 3:00)

13-17     In-service Training.  Bring Lunch (8:00-3:00)

18       Sat. Open House 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

20        SCHOOL BEGINS - 7:45-3:00, Tardy Bell 7:55(G7-12); 8:00 (K-6)

September

3        NO SCHOOL - LABOR DAY

11        Patriot Day

15        ACT Testing

19        Mid-term ends

20-21   NO SCHOOL - SCACS TEACHERS' CONVENTION

26        Mid-term grades go home

October 

9         Picture Day - Student Portraits

17        PSAT, Grades 9 - 11

24        End of First Nine Weeks

27        ACT Testing

29        Grades go home, 1st PARENTS' NIGHT (PTF) Grades 7-12

November

4         Day Light Savings Time ends (fall back)

6         Make-up Picture Day - Boy Scout Pictures

14        PLAN, Grades 10 - 11

15        SCACS College Fair (Seniors)

20        Annual Thanksgiving Meal - PARENTS INVITED

21-23   NO SCHOOL - THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS

26        Classes Resume

29        Mid-term ends

December

5         Mid-term grades go home

7         School Board Banquet for CCA Staff/Faculty (6:30 p.m.)

7         South Carolina Arbor Day

8         ACT Testing

19      Dismiss @ 12:00, Last day before break!

20-Jan.2 NO SCHOOL - CHRISTMAS BREAK!

January

3         Classes Resume

14        End of 2nd Nine Weeks

21      NO SCHOOL - M.L. KING FEDERAL HOLIDAY

22       Grades go home, 2nd PARENTS' NIGHT (PTF) Grades 1 - 6

29        Picture Day!  Class pictures/Fine Arts, Band, and Piano Group Pictures

31        Columbia Conference & Legislative Breakfast, (Jr. and Sr. Classes to attend)

February

9         ACT Testing

12       SCACS Basketball Quarterfinals

15        Mid-term ends

15        SCACS State Basketball Tournament

20        Mid-term grades go home

29        NO SCHOOL - ELEMENTARY FINE ARTS TEST. (Elem. Staff Mandatory)

March

5         PEERS Testing, Grades 7 - 12

9         Day Light Savings Time Begins

12-14    Jr. / Sr. High Fine Arts Festival

14        End of 3rd Nine Weeks

17        Grades go home, 3rd Parents Night (PTF) K3 & 4

21-28   NO SCHOOL - EASTER BREAK  

31         Classes Resume

April

1           Spring Portraits

7-11       STANFORD ACHIEVEMENT & OTIS LENNON TESTS

12         ACT Testing

15         Kindergarten Cap & Gown Pictures

15-17     AACS Fine Arts Festival

21         SCACS Golf Tournament

23         Administrative Professionals Day

25         Mid-term ends

28-5/2    Sr. Trip to the Wilds

30        Mid-terms go home  

May

5-9       Teacher Appreciation Week

6         National Teacher's Day

9         Jr./Sr. Banquet, 7:00 p.m.

5-16     AP Exams

22        Kindergarten ends 12:00 noon, K5 GRADUATION 7:00 p.m.

23        High School Graduation 7:00 p.m. (Staff/Faculty mandatory)

28        Annual Field Day

30        Last Day of School - Dismiss @ 12:00

30        Staff/Faculty Banquet (6:30 p.m.)

June

14        ACT Testing

1.     South Carolina law (69-65-50) requires that students be in attendance 170 out of 180 days of school. All absences, excused and unexcused, over 10 are unlawful.
2.     In order to receive grades or credit for a subject in grades 9 – 12, a student must attend 84 out of the 90 semester classes. The national standard for a Carnegie Unit is 120 clock hours of instruction time. All classes missed over six per semester will have to be made up after school or on Saturdays. There will be a charge of $10 per class period for makeup work. Make up classes will last 30 minutes.
3.     Excusable reasons for school absences are: (a) written doctor’s excuse (medical, dental, or optical); (b) hospitalization or bereavement of a student’s relative; (c) note from parent saying student was too sick to attend school; (d) sponsored events by student’s home church such as missions trip, youth group trip, etc.; (e) court required appearances; (f) school sponsored events; (g) emergency situations beyond the parent’s or student’s control which the administrator excuses; (h) planned family activities up to 5 per year.
4.     Written excuses for absences must be turned in the day the student returns to school in order for the teacher to accept them.
5.     The maximum number of days that can be excused based upon a parent’s note is five.
6.     All missed work must be made up before an absence will be marked excused.
7.     The student has the number of days absent plus one to make up missed work, tests and quizzes.
8.     Students will not be allowed to make up tests, quizzes, or exams when the absence is unexcused. Both parents and students must understand the risk with unexcused absences. This will mean “0”s will be entered for tests, quizzes, or exams missed for unexcused reasons.
9.     Students will be expected to be on time to class, chapel, and all school functions. Students not seated at 8:00 (K-G6), 7:55 (G7-12) or who miss up to 1½ hours of the school day will be marked tardy. Those who do not return to homeroom before school dismissal and stay until called for will be marked tardy.
10.     Those that miss between 1½ hours and 3 hours of the day will be marked absent ½ day.
11.     Those absent more than three hours will be marked absent for the entire day.
12.     In grades 7 – 12, a student will be marked absent for that period when ten or more minutes of any class is missed. This is true also for chapel. Chapel attendance is kept by Bible teachers.
13.     When a student has three tardies in any grading period, it will be marked as an absence. The basis for excusing tardies is the same as that for absences.
14.     In grades 7 – 12, attendance will be taken each period. Students not seated when the tardy bell first sounds will be marked tardy. This is true for all periods, one through seven. After three unexcused tardies per semester, (using restroom, getting water, stopped by someone is not excused) each tardy will result in five demerits. This is also true for study hall.
15.     Students who present a valid drivers license and proof of insurance may be permitted to drive to school. Drivers are required to be parked by 7:45 and seated by 7:55. Drivers will lose driving privilege for three weeks for each three driving tardies.
16.     Tardies create more work for teachers, interrupt the instructional time of other students, and harm the education of the student who is tardy. It is not fair to the other students and parents for a class to be continually interrupted by tardy students. To remedy the chronic problem of tardies that CCA has experienced in the past, parents will be charged $5.00 for each tardy in excess of fifteen. This is in addition to the demerits that will be issued in grades 7 – 12.
17.     Parents should keep school calendar in mind when planning vacation and remember that a few days may need to be added at the end of the year to make up days missed due to weather. Students may not take tests or exams early.
18.     Students who are absent may not participate in after school activities that day: ball games, concerts, plays, banquets, etc.
19.     Students violate the law when they are absent without the parent’s or guardian’s knowledge and when they leave without the school’s knowledge and/or without following the prescribed school procedures. This law violation will result in suspensions first two offenses and expulsion upon third violation. If a driver, student will lose driving privilege for the rest of the year.