About CCS

The Cordova Correspondence School was created to better meet the needs of students and to provide a connected home-school experience for families who choose an alternative instructional approach to the brick-and-mortar building.

Eligibility

CCS will accept any students who reside within the Cordova City School District boundaries and are at least five years old by September 1st of the current school year.

Academic Year

The Cordova Correspondence School follows the same calendar as all Cordova School District Schools.  

Click for the 2024-25 Elementary School calendar.

Click for the 2024-25 High School Calendar.

Grade Level Placement

Grade level placements up to and including grade 8 will be based on age.  Consideration may be requested by the parent for grade placement based on other factors.  For advanced placement, documentation, assessment scores, or work samples may be required prior to approval.  High School students will be placed according to credits achieved with proper documentation.

Parent Rights & Responsibilities

Monthly Contact with CCS Coordinator

Monthly contact is required between a CCS parent/guardian and the CCS Coordinator to monitor student progress.  This can be done by email, phone call, in-person meeting, or other contact as mutually arranged.

Quarterly Review (Submit Work Samples & Grades)

At the end of each quarter, CCS parents/guardians will be required to:

• Submit a copy of several work samples for each subject/course on your child’s ILP

• Use CSD grading scales to determine grades for each subject/course on your child’s ILP

• Submit the grades to the CCS Coordinator, who will review the work samples to determine that the grades submitted are accurate

State Testing

CCS students in grades 3-10, including part-time students, are required to take the state-mandated test.

Chromebooks

CCS students (grades K-12) may check out a district-owned Chromebook and must follow all of the same procedural and acceptable use policies that all CSD students follow in regards to school-owned technology.  See the “Technology” section for more information.

Non-Discrimination

No parent, guardian, student, applicant, or employee shall be discriminated against.  Cordova School District complies with all Federal and State Anti-Discrimination Statutes and Regulations.

Accidents

Cordova School District can assume no responsibility for accidents occurring during homeschool classes, workshops, field trips, or any other activities supervised by parents or a private vendor/contracted service provider.

Appeal Process

The student and parent have the same right to access the district appeal process as students and parents in the district's other programs (4 AAC 33.421).

Alaska Developmental Profile

The Alaska Developmental Profile is part of the comprehensive system of student assessments required by AS 14.07.020(b) and 4 AAC 06.710.  It is a developmental profile for each student entering kindergarten or first grade (if their profile wasn’t submitted entering kindergarten) in each school in the district, which includes CCS.  The purpose is to identify, record, and summarize the skills and behaviors students demonstrate upon entry to school, based on teacher observations. 

Student skills and behaviors are defined by whether students are consistently demonstrating 13 goals and indicators in the following five domains from Alaska’s Early Learning Guidelines:

• Physical Well-Being, Health, and Motor Development

• Social and Emotional Development

• Approaches to Learning

• Cognition and General Knowledge

• Communication, Language, and Literacy