school district
A school district is a special-purpose district that operates local public primary and secondary schools in various nations.
North America United States
In the U.S, most K–12 public schools function as units of local school districts, w ...
school board
A board of education, school committee or school board is the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or an equivalent institution.
The elected council determines the educational policy in a small regional are ...
. The school district currently operates 17 schools throughout the county.
High schools
There are three traditional public high schools and two alternative high schools:
Northwood High School Northwood High School may refer to:
* Northwood High School (Irvine, California)
* Northwood High School (Louisiana)
* Northwood High School (Montgomery County, Maryland)
* NorthWood High School, Nappanee, Indiana
* Northwood High School (North C ...
Chatham Central High School
Chatham Central High School is a public high school located in Bear Creek, North Carolina
Bear Creek is an unincorporated community in southwestern Chatham County, North Carolina, United States. It is named for a nearby creek that eventually flow ...
The district operates 5 elementary schools (serving grades K-8): Bennett School located in
Bennett Bennett may refer to:
People
*Bennett (name), including a list of people with the surname and given name
Places Canada
* Bennett, Alberta
*Bennett, British Columbia
*Bennett Lake, in the British Columbia and Yukon Territory
** Bennett Range
** Ben ...
Silk Hope
''Silk Hope'' is a 1999 made-for-TV romantic-drama film that starred Farrah Fawcett, along with Brad Johnson, Ashley Crow, and Scott Bryce.
Plot
Frannie Vaughn (Fawcett) comes back home after being away a long time, only to find that her mothe ...
Pre-kindergarten
Pre-kindergarten (also called Pre-K or PK) is a voluntary classroom-based preschool program for children below the age of five in the United States, Canada, Turkey and Greece (when kindergarten starts). It may be delivered through a preschool ...
center at Paul Braxton Children's Center in Siler City as well as several of schools in the county.
Bennett School controversy
In 2006, the Chatham County Board of Education announced that they were repealing a decision that allowed students that lived in the Randolph County portion of Bennett to attend Bennett School, the local K-8 school, free of charge. For years students from both counties that lived in "Bennett" were allowed to attend the school free under a memorandum of understanding between the two counties made many years ago. The announcement that the memorandum was being repealed stirred a firestorm of controversy, since the Randolph County students would be considered out-of-district students and could therefore be charged hundreds of dollars each year to attend school in Chatham County. The commute to the nearest Randolph County school was also a problem since it is located many miles from Bennett. To date, the Chatham County board has stood by its decision despite numerous complaints from
residents.
Construction updates
In January 2009, a Chatham County Schools press release confirmed the groundbreaking of a new middle school Margaret B. Pollard Middle School is located near Briar Chapel, in northeastern Chatham County. The 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students of Perry Harrison and North Chatham were moved here in January 2011.http://ds1.chatham.k12.nc.us/pressrel.nsf/2479ff2bec0fc2c585256a6a00771650/b8a4bece97689de68525754d007a4d19?OpenDocument