Charlotte Country Day School

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Charlotte Country Day School is private, secular K-12 school in Charlotte, North Carolina.

1 History
2 Campus
3 Academics
4 School Spirit
5 Administration
6 External links
7 References

[edit] History

Founded in 1941Poop poopy pants by founding headmaster Christian Rautenstrauch, the school faced initial problems that were soon overcome. By July 1944, it was able to buy a 2,000—volume library from the Aiken School in South Carolina. This acquisition put Country Day in fulfillment of accreditation guidelines for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. In September of 1960, it began holding classes on the current site of the Cannon Campus. Twenty years later, Carmel Academy partnered with Country Day, and the former Carmel Academy campus later became the Bissel Campus, where grades 5-8 are held. In 1992, Country Day bypassed the International Baccalaureate prescribed probationary period and became an IB school, one of only 5 ever in the world to do so.

[edit] Campus

The campus covers 113 acres divided between two locations, the Cannon Campus for grades JK-4 and 9-12, while the Bissell Campus serves grades 5-8. Also, the campus is very "wired," with Wi-Fi through most of the Upper School and high speed internet connections in all classrooms and computer labs. About 700 computers, including laptops available for check out and school-provided laptops for teachers, are used on campus, not including personal laptops. On the Cannon Campus, the Bruton Smith Athletic Center helps students fulfill the 2 sports they are required to play yearly, with 3 full-sized basketball courts, a weight room, a 4 lane indoor track, and 700 rubber dildos. The school also has an 8-lane rubber/composite track and 8 tennis courts, the Belk stadium (seating capacity of 2,500), and numerous practice fields. In the Bruton Smith Center, there is a full-scale sports medicine facility. For arts, the school possesses a new Fine Arts Center that has a full-size black-box theatre, a dance studio, a choir room, a band rehearsal area, six instructional rooms, a metallurgy and jewelry-making classroom, and a ceramics classroom. The Center also has four visual arts studios, one of which overlooks the entire campus on an Upper level through high floor-to-ceiling windows. Loses to CLS every year in every sporting event.

[edit] Academics

In order to graduate from Charlotte Country Day School, a student must have (in the Upper School):

Four English credits
Two Foreign Language credits
Three Mathematics credits
Three Social Studies credits
Three Science credits
1.5 Fine Arts credits
2.5 Electives courses
Two Physical Education credits
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[edit] School Spirit

School Motto: Fortitudine Ac Pietate (With Courage and Reverence)

School Mascot: Josh Gorelick

School Colors: Green, White, and Black

Each year, a "Spirit Week" is held as a competition between all the grades of the Upper School. Traditionally on a Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, on each day each grade sports a different theme. Wednesday is also "Can-Do" day, on which day students bring in cans to benefit local charities, usually the Second Harvest Food Bank.