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CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG SCHOOLS
5/30/17
I. High School Students A. Establishing Athletic Eligibility
A. Establishing Athletic Eligibility
1. Students Enrolled in Home Schools1
A student enrolled in his or her home school is eligible to participate in
athletics so long as the student meets all other local and state athletic
eligibility requirements. A student’s home school is based on the
residence address of the student’s parents, according to geographic
boundaries for home schools adopted by the Board of Education.
2. Students Enrolled in Magnets or Non-Magnet School Options3
a. Except as provided in subsection b, below, a student who enrolls in a
magnet or non-magnet school options program or school upon initial
entry into high school is eligible to participate in athletics at that
school.
b. A student who enrolls in a CMS middle college at the start of the 11th
grade is eligible to participate in athletics.
c. For high school magnet or non-magnet school options programs that
do not provide athletics onsite, the student may participate in athletics
at his or her home school. Under no other circumstances may a high
school student participate in athletics at a school in which the student
is not enrolled.
3. In addition, in order to participate in athletics:
a. a student must be properly assigned to a school according to the CMS
student assignment rules;
and
b. the student must meet all other state and local athletic eligibility
requirements.
The failure of school personnel, parents or a student to
be aware of a rule is not sufficient cause to set aside the application of
the rule.
c. A student may participate in athletics for no longer than eight
consecutive semesters, beginning with the student’s first entry into
ninth grade, whether in CMS or elsewhere.
4. A high school student whose 19th birthday is on or before August 31 of a
school year is not eligible for athletics during that school year or during
subsequent school years.
B. Maintaining Athletic Eligibility Upon Change of School Assignment
1. Eligibility for High School Students Who Change Schools
After establishing athletic eligibility upon enrolling in the home school or
at a magnet or non-magnet school options high school, a student is
immediately eligible for athletics at a different CMS high school in the
following circumstances:
a. The student enrolls in a different home school for any of the following
reasons:
i. The student’s parents move to a different home school attendance
area and the student enrolls in the new home school; or
ii. The student changes enrollment from a magnet or school options to
his or her home school; or
iii. The Board of Education changes the attendance area for the
student’s home school and the student enrolls at the new home
school.
b. A student is granted a transfer or reassignment to a different school by
the superintendent or Board of Education for any of the following
reasons (which must be documented in the student’s educational
record):
i. Medical necessity; or
ii. Safety of the student is at imminent risk; or
iii. In accordance with the student’s Individualized Education Program
(IEP); or
iv. In order to meet the needs of the student for a specific English
Language Learner program.
c. A student transfers into a specialized curriculum program at the
beginning of the first year of the program’s implementation, if the
following conditions are met:
i. The program must be designated by the superintendent as a
specialized curriculum program in which students may maintain
athletic eligibility; and
ii. The transfer must be approved prior to the first year the program is
in operation; and
iii. The student must be enrolled in the program at the beginning of the
school year; and
iv. The student must maintain participation in the program.
d. The student is a senior whose school was closed, if:
i. During the previous school year, the student attended a CMS high
school that has been closed by action of the Board of Education,
effective with the current school year; and
ii. As a result of the school being closed, the student’s home school
assignment was changed; and
iii. The student enrolls in a magnet or school options program or
another school through a transfer or through the School Options
Lottery, instead of in his or her new home school.
2. Eligibility for Students Who Remain in their Current Schools After a
Change in Their Home School Assignment
If a home school attendance area is changed by the Board, resulting in a
student’s parent’s residence being in the attendance area for a different
home school, the student’s athletic eligibility for the following school year
would typically be at the new home school (as described above in Section
B. 1. a. iii.). However, the student may retain athletic eligibility at the
current home school if:
a. The student is in the ninth or tenth grade at the current home school;8
and
b. The student is assigned to remain at the current home school either by a transfer or reassignment; and
c. At the current home school, the student was and continues to be enrolled in a specialized curriculum program or course that is not available at the new home school.
C. One-Year Ineligibility Period
1. Sit-Out Rule
a. Except as described above in Section B, if after establishing athletic
eligibility at a school in CMS, a high school student enrolls at a
different school, magnet or school options program in CMS, he or she
will be ineligible for athletic participation for one calendar year (365
days) from the date of the enrollment at the new school. This rule
applies when students change schools through the School Options
Lottery or through the reassignment/transfer process.
b. The sit-out period also applies to students attending schools that house
partial magnet or school options programs and whose assignment
changes from the magnet or school options program to the non-magnet
school program on the same campus, unless the non-magnet program
is also the student’s home school.
c. The sit-out period does not apply to students who change enrollment
from one magnet or school options program to another such program
on the same school campus.
d. The sit-out rule does not apply to a student who is reassigned from his
or her home school to a different school within 10 days of the
student’s initial enrollment in CMS.
2. If, after beginning a 365 day ineligibility period, a student changes schools
a subsequent time, enrolling in a school or magnet or school options
school that is not the student’s home school, an additional 365 day
ineligibility period begins upon enrollment in the subsequent new school.
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