The Bluff Bulletin

2025 - 2026

GROWing Better Today than Yesterday

Ramsey's Reflections

Hello Bear Family and Happy 2026!

I truly hope everyone stayed warm and safe during the most recent ice situation. To clarify any confusion, students did have work from home days on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Students will have a little additional time to complete assignments in the case of power or internet outages. We appreciate you helping to partner with teachers to make sure that students do indeed complete all assignments as assigned.

Specifically senior parents - we have entered into an amazing, yet emotional time as we are now in the graduation year! I want to remind you of the information outlets for parents and guardians of seniors. If you are not signed up for the senior remind, or if you put it on silent, PLEASE enable those notifications. Our grad coaches Ally Jones and Matt Gruhn continue to work very hard to provide scholarship opportunities, deadline announcements, updates, and general information via Remind and the Senior FAQ section of our CBHS webpage.

Thank you to all of you who made it out to our Registration Night. Our registration team, lead by Mrs. Micah Porter, organized and provided tons of information about in house registration as well as all of the other programs offered through Hall County. If you were unable to attend and still have questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to Mrs. Porter or our student services department to help find the answers you seek.

Continue to use caution and stay warm as the weather looks like we still have a few more weeks of winter ahead. :-) Make good choices, and as always Go Bears!

Love,

Mrs. Ramsey

2026-2027 Registration

We are wrapping up registration season. Academic teachers have met with each student to discuss their placement for next year. Advisement teachers have worked with each student through the first three weeks to select electives for next year. Each student will meet with a counselor to finalize their 7 classes and 2 alternates by the end of January.

Students interested in Dual Enrollment will need to schedule a meeting using the QR code outside of the Grad Coaches' Office. More information on the Dual Enrollment program in Hall County can be found here: https://www.hallco.org/web/dual-enrollment/

In early March we will send home a printed copy of the course requests for each student and parent to review. Change requests can be submitted directly on the form. Information on Course Planning can be found on our website under Student Services: https://cbhs.hallco.org/web/registration/

Student Support Time

Wednesday mornings each month from 8:00am to 8:45am are open for students to come in and meet with teachers for extra help. If your child is struggling in a class, please encourage them to attend the Student Support Time. Here are the upcoming dates:

February 25th, March 25th, April 22nd, April 29th, and May 13th

ACCESS Testing

ACCESS Testing begins February 2nd.

ASVAB

The ASVAB Aptitude Exam from January 28th is currently being rescheduled. Students wanting to register should see Coach Gruhn in the Grad Coach Office or sign up here https://forms.gle/qZ4gD1HNyQTBK4TD8

End of Course Milestone Exams

Students enrolled in Biology, Algebra, US History, and English Literature & Composition 2 will take an End of Course (EOC) assessment that will count as 20% of their final average in the class. Here are the dates for the assessments:

ELC 2: April 27 & 28

Algebra: April 29 Block Algebra: May 11

Biology: April 30 Block Biology: May 12

US History: May 1

AP Honor Roll

For the second year in a row CBHS has earned a place on the AP Honor Roll!

Schools can earn the Honor Roll recognition annually based on criteria that reflect a commitment to increasing their school’s college-going culture, providing opportunities for students to earn college credit, and maximizing college readiness.

CBHS earned Bronze status with by having

47% of seniors who took at least one AP Exam during high school
32% of seniors scoring a three or higher on at least one AP Exam
15% of seniors who took five or more AP Exams!

AP Testing Dates

AP Testing dates have been announced. Visit the link below to see when you will test in May and put that date on your calendar!

2026 AP Exam Dates

Have questions? Reach out to Dr. Sarah Kent or Mr. Shannon Reed they are here to help!

Click here for Infinite Campus Support

SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENTS

School Climate Survey

We want your feedback! The state of Georgia sends out climate surveys every year to help individual schools grow. I am asking for parents/guardians to go to the following link and complete the survey for CBHS. https://survey.gadoe.org/FM?sid=1345AAD5 Your students were sent a different link for student input prior to the holiday break through Canvas. We will be resending the student link next week for those who have not completed it. Again, the attached link is specifically for parents/guardians. Thank you in advance for your help in helping us grow to be the best high school experience that we can be for your students!

Career Tech

2026 Region Technology Competition

This year's GASTC Technology Competition was held on Wednesday, January 21st at Lanier Technical Institute. CBHS Students that attended did an outstanding job preparing and showing off their skills to the judges. Each student that attended from CBHS placed and the results can be seen below.

- Ryan King 1st place 3D Design and Modeling grades 11-12

- Riley Whitten 1st place Digital Photo Production grades 11-12

- Addyson Taylor 1st place Multimedia Applications grades 11-12

- Mackai Curtis 1st place Digital Game Design grades 11-12

- Hudson Sparks 1st place Animation grades 9-10

- Lucas Scott 2nd place Animation grades 11-12

- Daris Mehmedovic 2nd place Digital Photo Production grades 9-10

- Aiden Diaz and 2nd place Digital Audio Production grades 11-12

- Noah Westerbarkey

- Cherie Imperial 2nd place Graphic Design grades 9-10

- Max Whitten 3rd place Web and App Design grades 11-12

All 1st place finishers will go on to represent Hall County at the State Competition in March.

Pathway Information for the 2026-2027 school year

Safety and Security

"See Something, Send Something" - help keep our system and students safe.

If you or your student have a concern, please go to hallco.org or cbhs.hallco.org and click the yellow button to anonymously leave information to help keep our community safe and secure. See the pictures below.

(Both of these images are just pictures, not clickable like the links above).

HAnds only Cpr Training

On Wednesday, February 4th, juniors will receive training in hands-only CPR and the use of the AED through our partnership with Northeast Georgia Healthcare System.

Student IDs & Dress Code

Dress Code is linked HERE (on digital page 11) and is in the Student Agenda as well linked to our webpage.

Please refer to Student McBearson as a visual example of dress code expectations.

IDs are part of our school dress code. All students, staff, subs, and visitors are expected to wear an ID on a lanyard around the neck during the school day. This is for the safety of everyone in our building.

Please consider these guidelines when purchasing Back to School clothes. While our first concern is that students remain in class, students who consistently defy the dress code will have consequences beginning with calling a parent or guardian to bring other clothing to school and ending with possible ISS for not following school rules.

Please consider these guidelines above and the visual to the right when purchasing Back to School clothes. While our first concern is that students remain in class, students who consistently defy the dress code will have consequences beginning with calling a guardian to bring other clothing to school and ending with possible ISS for not following school rules.

cbhs student services

From the Kitchen

All lunchroom balances must be paid off each month. Balances carry over year to year. It is also important to remember that you are unable to walk at graduation without having a $0 balance. If you have any questions, please feel free to give us a call. Below is the link to look at your personalized MyPaymentPlus account.

https://www.mypaymentsplus.com/welcome

From the Nurse IMPORTANT

Is your student 16? If so, they MUST have the Meningitis Booster.

Reminder: All Immunization MUST be up-to-date. If you have a student turning 16 they are due an immunization that must be on file at the school.

For questions regarding immunizations and the state law, please click HERE

For the new Diabetic Law, click HERE

LEGACY

We have two outstanding LEGACY service capstone projects taking place next month, and we would love to share these opportunities with you!

Several of our juniors are partnering with 12Stone Church to plan and serve at Night to Shine, a prom experience celebrating individuals with special needs. Our students have already supported a pre-event activity, and the main event will take place on February 13.

Later that same weekend, another LEGACY junior is partnering with FundRacers to host a 5K at Mulberry Park on February 15. All proceeds from the race will benefit Thumbs Up.

Our students have worked exceptionally hard on their capstone projects this year, and we would be honored to have you join us at one of these events. Thank you for your continued support of our LEGACY students!

Night to Shine- Friday, 2/13
Thumbs Up 5K- Saturday, 2/15

BEAR ACHIEVEMENTS

Juniors and Seniors... Prom Tickets are officially for sale ONLINE. When you log-in to mypaymentsplus.com, you will go to "Events and Activities," then you will add the ticket(s) to your cart, and check-out. You can ALSO pay cash or check in-person in the Learning Commons. Tickets are $80. Please make checks payable to CBHS. Tickets are NOT refundable or transferrable, so please be sure you are able to attend before you purchase any tickets. We are so excited for you attend this wonderful event on March 21st!

DID YOU KNOW?

You and your students have access to tons of announcements daily? All of our screens in our school have important announcements running all day! You as parents can see those as well! Go to our website cbhs.hallco.org, click HERE to see these important announcements all year long!

Partners in Education

Thank you to our Partners in Education

for their support of our Staff and Students! Click above to see our Partners.

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