Last summers trip to London, Paris. Barcelona, was a huge success and this year's trip to Japan will be even greater. If you are interested in sending your 6-12 grade student and family members to Japan summer 2024, I will be holding a general interest meeting Thursday, September 16th in Room 108 at 6 pm. This trip is open to students from Montgomery, Harford, Prince Georges and Anne Arundel Counties. If you have any questions and wish to RSVP to reserve a spot to attend please send me an email at jamesscreven@yahoo.com. *Disclaimer: This is not a PGCPS sanctioned field trip and has no affiliation with PGCPS or CLF. It is a private tour operator serving students and their families from Maryland.

James Screven, Assistant Principal

Hello everyone! My name is Melanie Castillo! I am a new teacher at CMIT North Middle school. I will be teaching World Cultures & Geography II: Eastern Hemisphere and United States History I: Beginnings to Reconstruction. This will be my first year as an educator! I am a recent graduate of Pennsylvania State University. I studied Secondary Education focused on Social Studies. As a proud Prince George’s County graduate, I feel truly grateful to have the opportunity to teach at this great school and be part of such a wonderful community! I look forward to working with students in order to help them love social studies, understand the world around them and grow as individuals.

James Screven. Assistant Principal and Editor.

My name is Pouire Eric Ouedraogo and I am teaching Mathematics for 6th grade students (Regular and Accelerate). I have 3 Master degrees (Economics and Statistics, MBA option Finance, and Accounting) and am on my way for a doctorate in quantitative research. I am a graduate from the University of Ouagadougou, University of Lyon, and the University of Baltimore. I have taught in both Africa and the USA. I love Math because our life is Math and Math helps to explain this life. I hope to end this year with engaged students who now share this love of Math. I like playing soccer, volleyball and being in nature. If you need to contact me, my email is pouire.ouedraogo@pgcps.org. Your support for learning is welcome.

James Screven. Assistant Principal and Editor.

Students have been given their final schedules, assigned lockers and given PIN numbers for lunch. Lunch balances and payments can be my through My School Bucks, found through the PGCPS portal. A gently pre-owned uniform sale will be held by PTO the morning of September 17th, 2022, more to follow on that event.

James Screven. Assistant Principal and Editor.

It is that time of year again. CMIT North Middle School PTO will host our Fall Parent Workshop Series. The Series this year will be held at CMIT Middle school, on Saturday, November 12th @ 10am-2:30pm to end with a community BBQ. Present will be important speakers and vendors to help you navigate parenting a middle school child. Please join us for this important event.

James Screven, Assistant Principal

Parent/Guardians Please be aware of the CMIT requirement of all students regarding shoes. Uniform shoes are to be all black including soles and logos. Black sneakers with white, grey or any other sole color will be considered out of uniform. This is also true of sneakers that have colored logos other than black. Therefore, sneakers that are black that have white soles and a white/or other color logo, for example, white/ other color than black Niki Swoosh or Adidas Stripes will be considered out of uniform. Please help us by complying with this uniform requirement. Starting the week of 10/4 notices will be sent out to parent/guardians if your child does not meet the uniform standard for shoes. Thank you for your help in making CMIT the best school in PGCPS.

James Screven, Assistant Principal

Q: Is CMIT North MS a public school? 

A: Yes We are a public charter school who is staffed by PGCPS teachers and administration, and support staff who work along side of a limited CLF staff. We have access to PGCPS support but also benefit from additional guidance, management and financial support from Chesapeake Light House Foundation, whose educational concept this school is based on. 

Q: Do siblings get preference in applying to CMIT?

A: The process of gaining entry to any charter school in Prince George's County is through a lottery. However, siblings of already attending CMIT students are weighted differently during the lottery process. This different weighting gives preference to siblings. 

Q: What makes CMIT different then any other school in the district? 

A: Although we are a PGCPS public charter, we are given some autonomy over curriculum. This autonomy allows us to fast track students, who are academically ready, through selected high school courses in math, foreign language, science and technology. It is that fast tracking that opens up opportunity to more advanced  coursework on the college level while still in high school.  Additionally, we offer students supports and enrichments to every student, not available at most schools. Lastly, we are a uniform school which takes away the distraction, the competition and the social stratification that is brought on by non uniform dress in a school. 

Our test scores oustrip not only county averages but also state avaerages. This, along with other metrics has made us a 5 star school. 

Q: Do you offer everything the big middle and high school's offer? 

A: Unlike many school in Maryland, we do not have a  full spectrum offerings in sports.  Instead, our focus is on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics). Therefore, our sports offerings are more limited.  We offer, boys and girls soccer, basketball, girl's softball, boy's baseball and club lacrosse in the middle school. Additionally, boys and girls basketball, track/field and volleyball at the high school level. With that said we recently (2017) won the girls county basketball championship and made it to the playoffs in soccer. Our high school opened a multi-million dollar, state of the art gym complex, competitive with all schools of their size. The middle school has also added an indoor gym space.  Lastly, we do offer special educational services, but becuase we are a school of choice, the amount of service hours we can provide is limited to 7.5 hours a week, split between literacy and math. Services hours are delivered by special education teachers but are limited to literacy and math courses.