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Home School

Homeschooled students interested in joining CHCCS for athletics or afterschool arts programming must follow Policy 3621:

This rule allows home school students who are dually enrolled in a CHCCS high school to participate in high school athletics. It also applies to CHCCS middle school students. Home school students who are dually enrolled in accordance with the school system’s enrollment and assignment policies and procedures are eligible to participate in interscholastic athletics if they comply with all of the following.

a. The student must present a home school card from the Division of Nonpublic Education for the previous and current years, as well as a transcript, attendance record, and record of immunizations.

b. The student must submit proof that the student has been enrolled in a registered home school for 365 days before participation in athletics.

c. Prior to the first date of practice, the student must provide the results of a nationally standardized achievement test taken within the last year that indicates the student was on grade level at the time the test was taken. This must be approved by a content specialist in CHCCS.

d. The student must participate in four classes at a CHCCS school and take at least one class on the CHCCS campus each semester.

e. The student must pass all classes in which the student is enrolled at the assigned school to maintain athletic eligibility.

f. Once dually enrolled and deemed eligible to participate in athletics, the student must maintain continuous dual enrollment. Failure to maintain continuous dual enrollment would render the student ineligible for athletic participation for 365 days.

g. The student must notify the principal of the assigned school in writing of the student’s intent to try out for an athletic team at least 10 days prior to the first practice date of each sport season in which the student wishes to participate. Failure to comply with this requirement renders the student ineligible for that sport season.

h. The student must comply with all other applicable NCHSAA or North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI) rules and regulations regarding eligibility for athletic participation.

A dually enrolled student who transitions to full enrollment within the school system will then be governed by State Board of Education and NCHSAA and DPI rules and regulations regarding fully enrolled students.