CCSDs youngest students joined the statewide celebration of Georgia Pre-K Week. The event was designed to draw attention to the importance of early learning. The lottery-funded Georgia Pre-K program made its appearance in Cherokee County schools 20 years ago.

More than 1,900 children have attended pre-k in a CCSD school since its inaugural year, and the school district has increased its classrooms and locations steadily ever since the first 4-year-old students arrived on campus at R.M. Moore ES and Ball Ground ES in 1995. The two schools were the first selected to add pre-k classrooms because of the scarcity of preschool programs on the north end of the county.