Gordon County Schools is hosting its New Teacher Orientation today! We are so thankful for these educators to join our commitment to student success. We know they will make an immediate impact on the a lives of our students and community.
Thank you to everyone who has helped make this a special day for our new and returning teachers. We look forward to everyone getting to meet them at open house and on August 6th, the first day of school.
Together we are Gordon County Schools! #GCSTogether #GoCoSchools #GCS
PRESS RELEASE ANNOUNCING PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX INCREASE
July 24, 2024
The Gordon County Board of Education today announces its intention to increase the 2024 property taxes it will levy this year by 10.69 percent over the rollback millage rate.
The Gordon County Board of Education has proposed no change in the actual millage rate for 2024. The proposed millage rate will remain the same as 2023, at a rate of 16.364. However, state law requires this to be advertised as a tax increase since the state measures change not against the actual prior-year millage rate, but rather against the “rollback rate.” The rollback rate is calculated by subtracting any increase in the digest due to reassessment.
When the total digest of taxable property is prepared, Georgia law requires that a rollback millage rate must be computed that will produce the same total revenue on the current year’s digest that last year’s millage rate would have produced had no reassessments occurred.
The budget adopted by the Gordon County Board of Education requires a millage rate higher than the rollback millage rate; therefore, before the Gordon County Board of Education may set a final millage rate, Georgia law requires three public hearings to be held to allow the public an opportunity to express their opinions on the increase.
All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearings on this tax increase to be held at the Gordon County Schools Central Office, 7300 Fairmount Highway, Calhoun, GA on August 1, 2024 at 7:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. and on August 12, 2024 at 6:00 p.m.
Reminder: All Gordon County Schools students will be provided breakfast and lunch at no cost for the 2024-2025 school year.
Children need healthy meals to learn. Gordon County Schools offers healthy meals every school day at no charge to students, and we can now provide that for all children this school year. Our food service receives support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture through the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs.
By participating in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) and eliminating the need for meal applications, Gordon County Schools will reduce administrative and printing costs. Families also benefit from the elimination of completing and submitting meal applications.
School lunch is critical to student health and well-being, especially for low-income students—and ensures that students have nutrition they need throughout the day to learn. Research shows that receiving free or reduced-price school lunches reduces food insecurity, obesity rates, and poor health. This provision will help to remove any stigma or concerns about inaccessibility to healthy food options during the school day.
Thank you to Nicole Head, Director of School Nutrition, Superintendent Alice Mashburn, and our Gordon County Schools Board of Education for making healthy food accessibility a top priority for Gordon County families.
Hamilton Health-Calhoun is hosting a Back to School Celebration with free school supplies and ice cream on Thursday, August 1st from 1 to 3 p.m. while supplies last. Check out their flyer for full details and pick up some free supplies before our K-5 Elementary Open Houses from 4 to 6 p.m.
Check out our Open House dates and times to preview your child's school and teachers.
The first day of school is August 6th, and now's a great time to check out our school supplies hub! Visit https://www.gcbe.org/page/supplies to see what your child may need at each of our elementary, middle, and high schools. You can view each school's document list or view a grade level from the drop-down menu.
Today is the last day of summer enrollment, so take advantage of early registration by visiting one of our two locations now until 3:30 p.m. After July 11th, you will have to enroll at the school your child will be attending for the 2024-2025 school year.
Visit Ashworth Middle School if you are enrolling a child in Ashworth Middle, Belwood Elementary, Gordon Central High, Swain Elementary, or Tolbert Elementary.
Visit Sonoraville High School if you are enrolling a child in Fairmount Elementary, Red Bud Elementary, Red Bud Middle, Sonoraville Elementary, or Sonoraville High.
Belwood Elementary's Preschool Play and Learn Program (PAL) will have open house orientation Thursday, August 1st at 8:00 AM.
Don't forget! Open house is quickly approaching for the 2024-2025 school year. Mark your calendars for these dates and times at the elementary, middle, and high schools.
We encourage anyone who would like to enroll a child in Gordon County Schools to do so prior to open house for registration purposes. Summer enrollment ends July 11th. For more information about enrolling, please visit: https://www.gcbe.org/page/student-enrollment
We look forward to seeing you all very soon!
Gordon County Schools is introducing My Ride K-12, a parent communication app, to its transportation operations. My Ride K-12 will be integrated with our transportation software for families to access estimated times of arrival or departure for buses.
My Ride K-12 is designed so you can access your student’s bus schedules efficiently. GPS technology on the bus works with the district’s software to automatically calculate the timing of a bus route to give you the most accurate ETAs with real-time updates and route changes.
My Ride K-12 is now available for you to download on your Apple or Android mobile device. Our flyer provides step-by-step registration instructions, and you can access the app to download in a variety of ways. Scan the QR code on the flyer, follow the hyperlinks below, or search your app store for “My Ride K-12” to download and register your family on the app. Student bus route information will be available August 2nd on My Ride K-12.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/my-ride-k-12/id6443848115
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tylertech.myridek12&hl=en_US
The summer heat is no match for Sonoraville Phoenix football! These student athletes and their coaches are putting in the work , getting ready for an exciting 2024 season against new region opponents. Mark your calendars and cheer on Phoenix Nation for their 2024-2025 season!
https://www.maxpreps.com/ga/calhoun/sonoraville-phoenix/football/schedule/
#PhoenixNation #PhoenixFootball #SHS #GoCoSchools
SPLOST At Work! Check out the continued renovation project at Gordon Central High School. The new gymnasium, front entrance, and band room are just a few of the many upgrades GCHS will see this year.
Gordon County Schools would like to wish families a very happy 4th of July! Please be safe and have fun celebrating our nation on Independence Day.
Belwood students, get excited! The new playground is up and ready for action for the 2024-2025 school year. Thank you to the community for your support with this major project. We can't wait to see students playing on it in August!
In the month of June, our Nutrition Department's Summer Feeding Program has served over 175,000 breakfasts and lunches! We are very grateful for our nutrition and transportation staff for their hard work to serve and feed Gordon families with delicious, healthy summer meals.
Don't forget! The Gordon County Schools Summer Feeding Program resumes Monday, July 8th.
Gordon County Schools would like to thank Shaw Industries for their 2024 Shaw Community Grant of $2,500 toward our Helping Hands Ending Hunger initiative. We appreciate support from our community partners and will utilize the grant to help feed families across our district.
Gordon County Schools has partnered with Helping Hands Ending Hunger to provide Gordon County families and students with nutritious food outside of the regular school day. In addition to providing breakfast and lunch at no cost to families in 2024-2025, 8 of our Gordon County Schools are helping those in need of meal choices at home through the Helping Hands Initiative.
Gordon County Schools is covering what costs it can, but we cannot do this alone. We are asking our community at large to come together and help change lives with nutritious meal opportunities for families in need of assistance.
If you would like to contribute, please visit https://www.gcbe.org/o/gcs/page/helping-hands for more information about Helping Hands Ending Hunger and our goal to help feed Gordon County families.
Reminder: Summer enrollment is open for Gordon County Schools now through July 11th.
If you plan to enroll your child at Ashworth Middle, Belwood Elementary, Gordon Central High, Swain Elementary, or Tolbert Elementary, please visit the front office at Ashworth Middle School to enroll (333 Newtown Rd NE, Calhoun, GA 30701).
If you plan to enroll your child at Fairmount Elementary, Red Bud Elementary, Red Bud Middle, Sonoraville Elementary, or Sonoraville High, please visit the front office at Sonoraville High School to enroll (7340 Fairmount Hwy SE, Calhoun, GA 30701).
Office hours for enrollment are Monday through Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Registration is closed July 4th. After July 11th, families will need to submit paperwork at the school where they would like to enroll their child.
Visit https://www.gcbe.org/page/student-enrollment to access, print, and fill out the registration packet in its entirety prior to arriving. Packets are available at each location if you are unable to pre-register.
Happy July 1st, Gordon County Schools families! We hope everyone has had a great summer so far. If you're like us and already thinking about the first day of school (August 6th), then now's a great time to check out our school supplies hub!
Visit https://www.gcbe.org/page/supplies to see what your child may need at each of our elementary, middle, and high schools. You can view each school's document list or view a grade level from the drop-down menu.
ALL Gordon County Summer Feeding Sites will be CLOSED Wednesday, July 3rd through Friday, July 5th in observance of July 4th. Sites will be open and operational Monday, July 1st and Tuesday, July 2nd and are providing meals for those days.
Check out the Gordon County Schools Open House dates and times:
Elementary Schools: Thursday, August 1st
Pre-K at 8:30 AM, Kindergarten through 5th grade from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Middle Schools: Friday, August 2nd
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
High Schools: Monday, August 5th
Freshmen Orientation from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
