Here is the draft copy of the 2024-2025 school calendar. If you have any comments you would like for us to hear, please fill out this form.
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This comment form closes at 4pm on February 9, 2024.
Today, you will be receiving a DRAFT of the 2024-2025 school calendar. It is different from past calendars in that the first semester will end at Christmas rather than mid-January. To do this, it is necessary to start school a few days earlier than accustomed, but students and employees will get out of school in May barring some unusual weather that requires several days being made up at the end of school. Students and staff still get off approximately 2 1/2 months between school years.
Also, you will see a list that will more specifically described how the calendar will be. We have scheduled our graduation days on May 22, 2025, but that could possibly be changed. We are trying to avoid conflicting with both Memorial Day weekend and the State Track and Field Meet which affects many students.
We can only plan graduation with five school days of the last day of school, so dates are tight.
Anytime something is changed, it causes concern. I truly believe this calendar works well for our students.
Nicholas County Schools will be operating on a 3 hour delay today, January 29. Staff is to report on a 2 hour delay. No breakfast is served on 3 hour delays.
Nicholas County Schools will be operating on a 3 hour delay tomorrow, January 22, 2024. Staff is to report on a 2 hour delay. Breakfast is not served on 3 hour delays.
Due to Governor Justice calling state of emergency, Nicholas County Schools will be closed Friday, January 19, 2024. This is our first N T I D day. Students must complete thier snow packet. Employees are not to report.
Nicholas County Schools will be operating on a 3 hour delay tomorrow, January 18, 2024. Staff is to report on a 2 hour delay. Students are not served breakfast at school on 3 hour delays. Elementary school principals need to report to the board office at 9 am for a meeting with Dr. Lee.
I want to take this opportunity to update everyone on where we are on snow days and how we will proceed going forward. Today is our fifth day that school has been canceled due to weather conditions. In our schedule, we are allowed to miss five days without having to make them up or provide instruction to students. However, after that fifth day we enter a new phase called Non-Traditional Instructional Days. These are five days that teachers are required to provide instruction to their students in a variety of ways including snow packets, research papers, essays, or assignments on their iPad/Computers. Typically, on those days all employees would be required to report to work on an abbreviated schedule and all employees would work the same number of hours.
In the event that we use those five NTIDs, further cancellations would result in making those days up at the end of the school year.
So, the next day we miss school as an entire county, we will designate that day as our first NTID and on the state map it will appear green. After we have reach five of those, we must extend the school year for each additional day missed. Delays or early dismissals do not count against us in making up days. One reason we use delays are to hope for conditions to improve and allow us to have instruction. Every day that we call off school or have a delay, we consider the fact that parents struggle with childcare, yet we want to protect our students as much as possible and still have school in session as much as we can. I also realize how those decisions inconvenience working parents. We live in an area where roads are just fine in some places and treacherous in others. So, decisions are never simple. We are in constant communication with the National Weather Service, other school systems, citizens in our communities, and other weather services as we make our final decision.
Finally, in a nutshell, we have 10 total days per year to use for snow days before we have to make up days at the end of the year. I hope that this helps you better understand a very complicated process that all school systems have to follow. I know that many times our decision is not popular or understood, but I hope this helps you to better comprehend our decision-making process.
Terrence Beam, Superintendent
Due to icy roads and frigid temperatures, Nicholas County Schools will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday, January 17,2023.
The L S I C meeting scheduled for tomorrow January 16, 2024 at Nicholas County High School has been canceled.
Due to inclement weather, Nicholas County Schools will be closed Tuesday, January 16, 2024.
Due to high winds, icy secondary roads, and the potential for flooding today, Nicholas County Schools will be closed.
Nicholas County Schools will be operating on a 3 hour delay today, January 10, 2024. Staff is to report on a 2 hoir delay. Students are not served breakfast on a 3 hour delay.
Nicholas County Schools are closed today, Tuesday, January 9, 2024.All after school activities are canceled. The LSIC Board meeting for this evening is canceled.
Nicholas County Schools will be operating on a 3 hour delay today January 9, 2023.Faculty is to report on a 2 hour delay. Breakfast is not served on a 3 hour delay.
Nicholas County Schools will be operating on a 3 hour delay on Monday, January 8, 2024. Staff is to report on a 2 hour delay. Reminder: Students will not be served breakfast on a 3 hour delay.
iPad sales will resume on Thursday January 4, 2023. They are first come first serve. At this moment we have 231 5th gen and 438 6th gen. Please do not arrive at the Nicholas County Board of Education until 9 am.
Nicholas County Schools will be operating on a 3 hour delay on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024. Staff will report on a 2 hour delay. Students are not served breakfast on 3 hour delays.
It's the most wonderful time of the year! (to quote Andy Williams) And we need a little Christmas, right this very minute....... We all have our ups and downs and I realize that the holidays aren't that merry for those less fortunate or for those that have lost loved ones this time of the year. But Christmas is a time that people seem to be just a little nicer to each other than other times of the year. If that is indeed true, I wish the holiday season were a bit longer. For me personally, I recall the days of my childhood and the wonderful Christmas memories of being young and innocent that my parents provided. I hope that our kids today have that same experience, but I fear that we may try to grow them up too quickly and thus they miss the magic of Christmas. I would encourage parents to treasure these precious moments with your children and not to stress out over things that matter little. These times will pass quickly, and you
will turn around someday and those little ones will have little ones of their own. Make this time count. As a wise man once told me, “As a grandparent you learn that the things that you thought were the big things weren't....and things that you thought were little things actually were the big things.” Like memories of a childhood Christmas, for example. Above all, always remember what Christmas is truly about...the birth of Jesus Christ, our Savior, and that wonderful story we so love to hear.
Merry Christmas from everyone at the Nicholas County Board of Education!
Terrence Beam, Superintendent
the is a reminder that Nicholas County Schools will be dismissing students 3 hours early tomorrow, December 20, 2023. Due to state mandated facilty senate.
Due to inclement weather, Nicholas County Schools will be closed today December 19, 2023.