SCHOOL-PARENT COMPACT

2023-2024


What is a School-Parent Compact?

Our annual school-parent compact offers ways that we can work together to help our students succeed. This compact provides strategies to help connect learning at school and at home.

Effective Compacts:

  • Link to academic achievement goals

  • Focus on student learning

  • Share strategies that staff, parents, and students can use

  • Explain how teachers and parents will communicate about student progress

  • Describe opportunities for parents to observe, volunteer, and participate in the classroom

Jointly Developed
The parents, students, and staff worked together and shared ideas to develop the school-parent compact. Quarterly Parent-Teacher Academic Meetings and Title I Committee meetings are held each year to review and revise the compact based on the school’s academic achievement goals and students’ needs.

Parents are welcome to provide feedback at any time. All feedback will be collected and reviewed during the annual revision meeting with parents.

Building Partnerships
There are many opportunities at our school for parents to volunteer and play a role in their child’s education. (See our parent & family engagement plan event appendix or the Annual Title I Parent & Family Engagement Calendar.)  Please consider joining the faculty, staff, and fellow parents through some of the following events and programs:

  • Academic Family Nights

  • School Governance Participation

  • November Family Day

  • Parent Workshops: day/night time meetings to increase parent capacity on varied topics

Communication about Student Learning
Metter Middle is committed to frequent two-way communication with families about children’s learning. Some of the ways you can expect us to reach you are:

  • Current grades available through Infinite Campus Student Information System

  • Parent-teacher conferences in Fall and Spring

  • Progress reports 4 times a year and report cards once per quarter

  • School website and School Facebook

  • You may contact your child’s teacher at any time. Please call the Prek-8 Complex at (912) 685-5050 or email the teacher directly.  

Our Goals for Student Achievement

District goals:

  • 90% of students will graduate on time

  • 100% of Students will be career or college ready

  • CCSD will increase the percentage of students reading on Lexile by 10% as measured by the FY24 Georgia Milestones ELA assessments in grade 3, 5, 8, 9, &11. 



    School goals and focus areas:

  • MMS will increase the percentage of students reading on Lexile by 10% as measured by the FY 24 Georgia Milestones ELA assessments in grades 6-8. 

  • 100% of Metter Middle School students will finish with an Individual Graduation Plan and Career Portfolio.

Focus Areas:

  • Use of SWIRL (speaking, writing, illustrating, reading, listening) all content areas to improve literacy across the curriculum

  • Use Georgia Career Information Center tools and Career Inventories with fidelity to ensure college and career readiness

Teachers

  • Will provide parents with resources via Google Classroom and the school website as well as during parent workshop and parent/teacher academic meetings (2 per year)

  • Will share students’ individual graduation plans and career inventories with parents (8th grade)

  • Will send work samples home in order for parents to review learning focus, student work, and teacher feedback

  • Will host academic days/nights in order to provide hands on experiences and share strategies with parents

Parents

  • Will provide time and support for homework and 20 minutes of reading each day

  • Will review work samples with my child to help improve his or her work

  • Will use resources shared via Google classroom and the school website as well as information from parent workshops and academic meetings to support my child’s academic progress

Students

  • Will complete all homework and read at least 20 minutes each day

  • Will use teacher feedback to improve my work and prepare for assessments 

  • Will complete my IGP and Career Inventories

  • Will use Google Classroom and school website resources to increase my understanding and progress toward meeting learning goals                      

   Revised on June 23, 2023