The district constructed report cards that highlight each school's efforts to provide their students with a complete education in the 2017-18 school year. Please click here to see the CCHS report card and all OCPS report cards by campus. Thank you.
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1101 Bear Crossing Road
Orlando, FL 32824
(407) 852-3400
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Cypress Creek High School
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Summer break '18 is officially over. Our teachers have been on campus this week preparing for the students' return on Monday morning. On behalf of the administration and faculty, we are very excited to welcome back our Bears!
As for this last issue of the summer, you will find some helpful back-to-school reminders such as dress code and student lockers as well as highlights of campus happenings over the past couple of weeks.
Have a nice weekend and I am looking forward to seeing everyone Monday for a successful, on-time start to 2018-2019!
In Bear Pride,
Dr. W. John McHale
Principal
Cypress Creek High School
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August 13: Start of the
2018-2019 school year
August 16: Track interest meeting, 2:30 PM
, gym 3-108
August 17: Deadline to request a schedule change, 3 PM
August 23: Performing Arts Parent Night, 5-8:30 PM
August 24: Football season begins vs. the Windermere Wolverines away at 7:00 PM
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Our teachers have been on campus all this week as part of their annual pre-planning process. The images we have for the community just below were taken on Monday, their first day back, as a group prior to working in their individual classrooms and learning communities. As seen here, everyone had a terrific time and enjoyed a wonderful breakfast.
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One-mill property tax renewal vote on August 28th
Making sense of the chart: The chart illustrates actual average annual per student funding dating back to 2007 and then projected forward to 2022, adjusted for the cost of inflation (the black line running along the top equals average total student funding after you factor in rising costs due to inflation which are a reality).
You can see where the one-mill property tax kicked in during 2011 and then ran through this past school year (brown bars). Now it is time to vote again. Without an extension of the one-mill, OCPS will have -$1,437 less in per-student funding than what 2007 funding would provide today as there will be fewer dollars to work with combined with rising costs due to inflation.
The bottom line? Without the extension of the one-mill, OCPS anticipates a total 2019 budget reduction of $143 million which will impact many hundreds of teachers, academic programs, arts and athletics.
"You decide. Your vote counts."
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Schedule Change Information
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The Schedule Change Request Form is now online!
If you would like to request a schedule change, please complete the online form at:
tinyurl.com/schedulecchs2018
Deadline to request a schedule change:
August 17, 2018 by 3:00 PM!
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CCHS earns the Five Star School Award from the Florida Dept. of Education
The Five Star School Award was created by the Commissioner's Community Involvement Council and is presented annually to those schools that have shown evidence of exemplary community involvement. In order to earn Five Star School recognition, a school must show documentation that it has achieved 100 percent of the established criteria in the following categories. Schools must also earn a grade of "C" or above, or school improvement rating of "maintaining or improving" for the year of nomination.
- Business partnerships
- Family Involvement
- Volunteerism
- Student Community Service
- School Advisory Councils
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Track & Field
Boys and Girls Track Interest Meeting
- Thursday, August 16th from 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM in the gym classroom 3-108
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Student Locker Application Form
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Six of our Bears went the extra distance over their summer break to make new families feel welcome.
Thank you to students
Mariangel Carroz, Mauricio Gonzalez Valles, Juan Ospina, Keymer Roa, Rossana Ferrer, and
Santiago Lopez who worked hard over the summer to make connections with new families from other countries, states, counties, and even other schools. The students made our new students and parents feel welcome at Cypress Creek High School. They ensured parents and students knew everything they needed to know to become a successful CCHS Bear! #BearFamily
Above: Students assisting during a new parent session over the summer. One student's t-shirt reads "Helping One New Bear At A Time."
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2018-2019 Communications / Senior Yearbook Photos
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Cypress Creek High School Website
You can find the College & Career Center Newsletter, Scholarship Bulletin, and information on upcoming college visits at
www.cchs.ocps.net Click on Guidance and then College and Career Resource Center.
Senior Yearbook Photos
Attention Seniors! Cady Studios is our official senior photographer. Book your senior appointment today by visiting
cadystudios.com All appointments must be scheduled online or by contacting customer service. Session fees start as low as $30 and all sessions include the formal yearbook pose as well as cap & gown images. Make sure you're in the yearbook! Schedule your appointment time soon at
cadystudios.com
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Free/Reduced Meal Program
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Art teacher Jesus Marin's students worked on "Funky Heads III 2018"
A bust is a sculpted or cast representation of the upper part of the human
or not human figure, depicting a person's head and neck, and a variable portion of the chest and shoulders. My students used this sculpture technique to recreate the likeness of an individual. They did awesome!!!!
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Mr. Marin,
CCHS Art Dept.
* Please
click here to view other examples of the students' 3-D art work.
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Friday's Motivational Moment!
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STUDENT SUCCESS STORY - SAVOHN THOMAS
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Savohn Thomas being interviewed by Channel 13 reporter Erin Murray for a special back-to-school special next week.
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Savohn Thomas attended a number of area high schools during the previous three years, but finally found a "home" during his senior year at Cypress Creek High, just as he became homeless due to a variety of family issues. He bounced from place to place, trying not to be a burden to anyone who was helping him out. He experienced depression and felt that people threw him away. "You never realize how cold it really is until you have no jacket," Savohn says.
"You never realize how cold it really is until you have no jacket."
At times, he found a couch to crash on so far away from his school that he would wake up at 3 a.m. to start walking just to get there on time. Not only did he have an inner drive to graduate, his interest in poetry and performance was nurtured by Cypress Creek High's educators and student body. He found an outlet for his fears and frustrations through the school's drama program. He was cast in the school's production of
In The Heights, which was adjudicated as part of the Dr. Phillips Center's Applause Awards. He didn't dare count on college in his future, but just as he was graduating as part of the Class of 2018, he earned a prestigious Applause Award and a scholarship to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, an elite college conservatory for performing arts in Manhattan. Savohn is the first recipient of the newly established Pursuit of the Arts Fund through the Foundation for Orange County Public Schools.
The full need for Savohn to attend the school's four-year program per year is $52,100 (tuition and housing). The AMDA scholarship of $40,000 covers $10,000 per year and Savohn received grants covering $10,000 more per year. But his outstanding balance is $37,885 per year. BB&T has pledged $7,500 to the scholarship fund. Local T-Mobile representatives have made personal donations of a hot spot, phone and service, based on their involvement in supporting students in need through Orange County Public Schools.
The Cypress Creek High community is reaching out on behalf of their graduate, and the arts community is starting to rally behind Savohn. This is truly one of those moments in a child's life where he can fall through the cracks or can soar. Savohn himself says he's experienced a "minor setback on the way to his major comeback." We're working hard to ensure that Savohn Thomas goes to New York on scholarship and soars into stardom!
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W E L C O M E B A C K B E A R S !
Principal McHale
Cypress Creek High School
Friday, August 10, 2018
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