31. Driver’S Education
City: Charlotte, NC
Category: Education
Telephone: (980) 343-6159
Description: All area students in public, private, charter, or home schools are eligible for free driver education through CMS. The course includes 30 hours of classroom instruction and 6 hours behind the wheel, and is intended as a base for continued parental instruction. North Carolina uses a graduated license program. Students under 18 must complete driver education, pass 70 percent of academic courses, stay enrolled in school, and have a valid learner’s permit with no violations for one year before obtaining an unrestricted driver’s license.
32. English As A Second Language
City: Charlotte, NC
Category: Education
Telephone: (980) 343-0432
Description: This program provides intensive instruction in English to students whose native tongue is another language.
33. Exceptional Children’S Department
City: Charlotte, NC
Category: Education
Telephone: (980) 343-6960
Address: 700 East Stonewall St.
Description: This program serves special-needs children from preschool to age 21 and promotes community efforts to ensure all children enter school ready to learn. Free screenings and evaluations are available. Programs are offered for children who are autistic, hearing impaired, visually impaired, mentally disabled, multi-handicapped, orthopedically impaired, behaviorally/emotionally disabled, speech/language impaired, or who have traumatic brain injuries.
34. International Baccalaureate (Ib)
City: Charlotte, NC
Category: Education
Telephone: (980) 343-6955
Description: The most challenging curriculum offered in the United States, the International Baccalaureate program requires a minimum of college-level English, math, and foreign language courses. Some IB students enter college as sophomores. CMS was the first district in the state to offer IB courses, and now has approximately 1,900 students enrolled in IB programs at five high schools and four middle schools.
35. Junior Achievement Of The Central Carolinas
City: Charlotte, NC
Category: Education
Telephone: (704) 536-9668
Address: 201 South Tryon St., Suite LL100
Description: Devoted to teaching children about America’s economic system and its private enterprise sector, Junior Achievement of Charlotte is the 12th largest in the nation. It involves volunteers from the business community and currently provides both private and public schools with programs that range from kindergarten through grade 12.
36. Metro School
City: Charlotte, NC
Category: Education
Telephone: (980) 343-5450
Address: 405 South Davidson St.
Description: This is a self-contained school for nearly 200 mentally and physically handicapped students with academics based on grade-appropriate standards following the North Carolina Extended Content Standards’ Curriculum, as well as in music, art, media skills, community-based instruction, horticulture, consumer science, prevocational and vocational skill instruction, and adapted physical education.
37. Talent Development And Advanced Studies Program
City: Charlotte, NC
Category: Education
Telephone: (980) 343-6955
Description: This is a state-mandated program providing advanced content, higher-level thinking, and developmental courses for those students who need academic challenges beyond those regularly found in the advanced classes. Students must meet CMS program eligibility requirements.
City: Charlotte, NC
Category: Education
City: Charlotte, NC
Category: Education
Address: 801 West Trade St.
City: Charlotte, NC
Category: Education
Address: 100 Beatties Ford Rd.
41. Montreat College
City: Charlotte, NC
Category: Education
Telephone: (800) 436-2777
Address: 5200 Seventy-seven Center Dr.
Description: A private Christian college whose main campus is in a valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Montreat is affiliated with the Presbyterian church and dates to 1916. About 575 students attend the School of Professional and Adult Studies. The school offers associate’s degrees in business and education, a bachelor’s degree completion program in business administration, and an MBA. Hallmarks of the college are small classes, real-world relevance, and instructors who are academically credentialed business professionals.
City: Charlotte, NC
Category: Education
Address: 4701 Park Rd.
City: Charlotte, NC
Category: Education
Address: 1900 Selwyn Ave.
City: Charlotte, NC
Category: Education
Address: 9201 University City Blvd.
City: Charlotte, NC
Category: Education
Address: 1201 Elizabeth Ave. at Kings Drive