Hello Parent (s)/Guardian(s) Saturday, Oct. 1 is the first day to apply for high school specialty programs including Science & Technology, Aerospace, International Baccalaureate, P-TECH, 3D Scholars, Visual and Performing Arts, Online Campus, the Academy of Health Sciences and Career and Technical Education programs. Learn more about high school program options on Thursday, Oct. 20 at a showcase at Northwestern High School from 6 to 8 p.m. Also, you can click on the link below for more information regarding specialty programs. https://www.pgcps.org/about-pgcps/applications

Yurhance Johnson, Professional School Counselor

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. Thus Far we have secured our keynote speaker from The Secret Service, who will discuss the internet and child exploitation dangers. Additionally, we have a speaker from the company Bark who will discuss how you can use their international software application, and new Bark phone, to secure your child's phone, texts, social media and internet. More speakers to come!

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 October 4, we will begin classroom checks to look for all uniform infractions. If a uniform infraction is found, the parent/guardian will be called to come to the school to provide the correct item. If the parent can not come and provide the correct uniform piece, then the student will have to taken from the classroom and placed in the alternative learning center to complete their work for that day. 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.