School dossier · Matthews, NC
Carmel Christian School
8 research areas · 11 documents distilled
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Course Offerings
Compare on Course OfferingsGRADES 9 – 12High School Courses
A Biblical Studies course in the four-credit Bible sequence.
A Biblical Studies course in the four-credit Bible sequence.
A Biblical Studies course examining faith in cultural context.
A worldview capstone in the Biblical Studies sequence.
The Pathways track of the entry English course.
The standard track of the entry English course.
The honors track of the entry English course.
The Pathways track of the American-literature year.
The standard track of the American-literature year.
The honors track of the American-literature year.
The Pathways track of the British-literature year.
The standard track of the British-literature year.
The honors track of the British-literature year.
The Pathways track of the world-literature year.
The standard track of the world-literature year.
The honors track of the world-literature year.
College-level rhetoric, argument, and composition.
College-level literary analysis and composition.
The Pathways entry course of the math sequence.
The Pathways second course of the math sequence.
Honors Euclidean geometry.
The Pathways track of second-year algebra.
The standard track of second-year algebra.
The honors track of second-year algebra.
The Pathways fourth-year course covering Algebra III and trigonometry.
Honors precalculus — functions and trigonometry before calculus.
College-level precalculus.
The standard track of probability and statistics.
The honors track of probability and statistics.
College-level differential and integral calculus.
College-level statistics.
The standard track of the entry lab science.
The honors track of the entry lab science.
Honors biology.
The standard track of chemistry.
The honors track of chemistry.
Honors chemistry.
The standard track of anatomy and physiology.
The honors track of anatomy and physiology.
Conceptual physics.
Honors physics.
Forensic science.
Introductory engineering and robotics.
The second-level honors engineering course.
College-level biology.
College-level environmental science.
The standard track of world history.
The honors track of world history.
The standard track of US government and economics.
The honors track of US government and economics.
The standard track of US history.
The honors track of US history.
A cultural geography elective.
A combined psychology and sociology elective.
A personal-finance course.
College-level US government and politics.
College-level American history.
College-level human geography.
College-level psychology.
College-level world history.
First-year Spanish.
The standard track of second-year Spanish.
The honors track of second-year Spanish.
The standard track of third-year Spanish.
The honors track of third-year Spanish.
Fourth-year Spanish at honors level.
College-level Spanish language and culture.
An online world-language option for languages beyond Spanish.
The health requirement.
Physical education.
Athletic conditioning for female students.
A team-sports fitness course.
A weight-training fitness course.
The entry studio-art course.
The second-level studio-art course.
Third-level honors studio art.
Fourth-level honors studio art.
The AP 2-D art and design portfolio.
The concert band as a credit course.
The school praise band as a credit course.
The choral ensemble as a credit course.
An introductory theatre course.
The honors acting course.
First-level digital photography.
Second-level digital photography.
First-level media and journalism.
Second-level media and journalism.
Producing the school yearbook.
A business elective in entrepreneurship and marketing.
A business elective in finance and ethics.
A practicum in Christian leadership.
A supervised educational internship.
A public-speaking and debate elective.
An elective examining science and faith.
The first AP Capstone course, developing research and argument skills.
The second AP Capstone course, culminating in an academic paper.
GRADES 6 – 8Middle School Courses
The grade-6 Bible course.
The grade-7 Bible course.
The grade-8 Bible course.
The grade-6 language-arts course.
The grade-7 language-arts course.
The grade-8 language-arts course.
Honors-track language arts, offered in grades 6–8.
Advanced-seminar language arts through CCS Pathways, grades 6–8.
The grade-6 mathematics course.
The honors grade-6 mathematics course.
The grade-7 mathematics course.
The pre-algebra course.
The honors pre-algebra course.
High-school Algebra I taken for honors credit in middle school.
Advanced-seminar math through CCS Pathways, grades 6–8.
The introductory middle-school Spanish course.
The first half of the Spanish I sequence.
The second half of the Spanish I sequence.
The grade-6 science course.
The grade-7 science course.
The grade-8 science course.
The grade-6 social-studies course.
The grade-7 social-studies course.
The grade-8 social-studies course.
Middle-school physical education.
A physical-activity elective in Pilates.
The entry visual-art elective.
The continuing visual-art elective.
A visual-art elective in digital photography.
The middle-school choir.
The middle-school band.
The audition-based chapel worship band.
The entry theatre elective.
The continuing theatre elective.
A movement/dance elective.
An advanced theatre elective.
A semester-long core-content elective.
A semester-long core-content elective.
A semester-long core-content elective.
A semester-long core-content elective.
A supervised study period.
A semester-long STEM elective.
A semester-long core-content elective.
A semester-long writing elective.
A semester-long leadership elective.
A semester-long design-technology elective.
KINDERGARTEN – GRADE 5Lower School Courses
The elementary guide describes each subject by grade (e.g. "Math" per grade) rather than as distinctly-titled courses, which is normal for K–5; the rows below carry the guide’s own per-grade descriptions.
Who God is through Creation and the Old and New Testaments, Bible-study skills and Christian living, with weekly scripture memorization and chapel reinforcing a biblical worldview across every subject.
Foundational number sense in Kindergarten building through Grade 5 fraction operations, volume, measurement, decimals, geometry and coordinate planes — visual models, hands-on activities and word-problem reasoning throughout.
A multisensory literacy block rooted in the Science of Reading with Orton-Gillingham phonics; strands span phonemic awareness, phonics and morphology, reading (Accelerated Reader from Grade 1), grammar (Analytical Grammar by Grade 5), composition and handwriting.
Inquiry-based, hands-on study of God’s creation across life, physical and earth/space science, advancing by grade from plants and matter to water and climate, energy and environments, and living systems.
Civics, culture, economics, geography and history from a biblical worldview, progressing from community themes through US history, North Carolina history (Grade 4) and early American history to the 1880s (Grade 5).
Foundational construction skills — painting, drawing, cutting, collage — with the elements of art, art vocabulary and self-assessment, framing creativity as an expression of God’s design.
Language development through songs, games, literature, art and technology across the three modes of communication — interpretive, interpersonal and presentational.
Digital resources, Google Classroom and Chrome, and basic keyboarding and coding, taught with the Media Specialist and Technology Specialist.
Music literacy, response and relevance as a form of worship — the elements of music and foundational skills on hand drums, kazoos and boomwhackers, with interdisciplinary connections.
Spatial awareness, games, fitness challenges, fine- and large-motor development, teamwork and the foundations of personal and social responsibility.
The STEM Lab — engineering builds, Dash-robot coding, codable Lego kits and 3D-printer designs, often tied directly to the classroom science curriculum.
Student Clubs
Compare on Student ClubsService & Civic Engagement
A high-school discipleship-and-service organization where students mentor Extended-Day children weekly — the school’s one standing service org, entered by application and interview. Service is a published graduation-adjacent expectation here: a minimum of 20 service hours per grade level in high school, met partly through J-Term and Beta Club rather than a single logged total.
High school students mentor children in the school’s Extended-Day program, entered by application, teacher recommendation, a September interview and October training. It is the one standing high-school service and discipleship organization, run on a fixed weekly schedule rather than as an opt-in sign-up.
"A minimum of 20 hours are the required service hours per grade level." J-Term service hours can count toward the requirement (up to 20 per J-Term course), and Beta Club adds its own 10 hours per semester. No school-wide cumulative total is published.
A mandatory week-long J-Term course is a graduation requirement and can include mission trips; the high school also runs international missions trips. See You at the Pole, the annual student prayer gathering, is led by the MS SGA and HS Student Council.
Spiritual-life traditions carry the rest of the program: the Windy Gap fall spiritual retreat in the NC mountains for Middle and High School, See You at the Pole, and Christmas and Spring Arts programs. Cornerstone Prayer Ministry is a parent gathering, not a student organization, and is not counted here.
Honor Societies
Four documented societies — three high-school chapters plus a middle-school junior society — each with published GPA and induction detail. Entered by achievement and application: the school publishes GPA thresholds and induction windows for its academic societies rather than a standing directory page.
| Society | Division | What it recognizes | Feeds from |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Honor Society | High School | Scholarship, leadership, service and character — 3.85 weighted GPA (3.75 unweighted from the class of 2024); by application, with October inductions | the classroom |
| National Beta Club | High School | Academic achievement and service — grades 10–12, 3.50 GPA, 10 service hours per semester and 2 service projects per year; fall inductions | classroom + service |
| Spanish Honor Society | High School | Spanish-language achievement — the "CCS Chapter of SHS" | world languages |
| National Junior Honor Society | Middle School (8th) | Scholarship and character for 8th graders — 3.8+ GPA; October inductions | the classroom |
Club Catalog & Overview
Clubs are student-initiated by application, so the standing roster is small — five named Upper School organizations, mostly honor societies, student government, and one service org. There is no published club directory; this is what the handbook and school pages confirm.
The Arts
Compare on The ArtsThe TK–12 Arts Ladder
A K–12 arts program — integrated music and art for every K–4 student, becoming a sequential, elective-driven track from grade 5 up. Overseen by Arts Director Christina McCorkle, and headlined in 2026 by a Blumey Best Actress win that advanced to the national Jimmy Awards.
Theatre & the Blumeys
A K–12 production season topped by a 2026 Blumey Best Actress win — Anna Jernigan in "Footloose" — that advanced to the national Jimmy Awards. The Blumeys are Blumenthal Performing Arts’ regional high-school musical-theater awards. Carmel Christian converted a finalist run into an outright win in 2026 and placed six across five categories that year.
The director and the venue are not published — the arts nav carries a "Main Stage" label but no room name, and the Footloose "SOLD OUT!" note implies a fixed-capacity house that is not named anywhere.
Honest context: Anna Jernigan’s arc anchors the program: a 2024 Best Actor finalist placement (as Lily in Anastasia, per Blumenthal’s own labeling) became the 2026 Best Actress win for Footloose, which carried on to the national Jimmy Awards. Note that the 2024 nominations belong to Anastasia, not to "Singin' in the Rain" — the school’s undated news page pins a separate, earlier pair of noms (Pisacano, Wilson) to that different production. No NCTC festival result or state-level theatre honor was found in this pass; the Middle School Spring Play Competition names the NCTC circuit but no placement is published.
Music & the Honors Pipeline
Three named ensembles across the divisions — Symphonic Band, Choir and the audition-based Ignite Band praise team. The ensemble slate is band- and choir-centered; no orchestra, a cappella group or music honor society is published.
Ignite Band, the High School praise team, is audition-based — a video submission followed by an in-person round by invitation. No orchestra, a cappella group or Tri-M / music honor society is published.
No music honor society (e.g. Tri-M) and no per-year selection or superior-rating counts are published. The honors picture beyond the Middle School Honor Band event is not documented.
Studio to Gallery
A studio track that widens into media and publications in High School — visual arts, digital photography, yearbook, creative writing and journalism. The arts page names no leveled studio sequence, but the Course Offerings guide does: a path from Art I/II up to AP 2-D Art & Design.
High School gallery or exhibit events beyond the Middle School Art Festival are not published, and no external visual-arts recognition (Scholastic or otherwise) surfaced in this pass. The Honors and AP studio courses appear only in the Course Offerings guide, which the arts page does not corroborate.
Verdict & Visit Checklist
A theatre program with a genuine, recently converted Blumey win, sitting on a leaner music and visual-arts footprint than its regional peers. The 2026 Best Actress win and its Jimmy Awards advancement are the real, verified headline; the open questions are about the undocumented venue, director and honors circuits.
Sports
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9 varsity sports across roughly 28 teams — a focused Cougars program in NCISAA 4A, the top private-school classification. Basketball, soccer and volleyball carry a JV and Middle School ladder; there is no football, lacrosse or track on the current offered list.
Middle School boys basketball splits into "Blue & Gold" squads to widen participation, and golf runs a co-ed Middle School team in spring. Carmel moved up from NCISAA 3A to 4A around 2019.
Winning Record
Three recent NCISAA titles — two in boys basketball (2019 3A, 2022 4A) and one in boys soccer (2020 4A) — behind a string of deep finals runs. "State" = NCISAA (the private-school association); Carmel does not compete in the public-school NCHSAA.
What they didn't win: Christ School took the boys basketball 4A titles Carmel lost in 2023 (48–53) and 2025 (Christ School three-peated); Rabun Gap-Nacoochee beat Carmel in the 2021 (1–0) and 2022 (1–0) boys soccer 4A finals, and Coastal Christian in the 2019 3A final; Providence Day shut Carmel out for the 2026 girls soccer 4A title (1–2).
Boys Basketball: 2022: NCISAA 4A champion — beat Greensboro Day 71–66 on Feb 26, 2022 at Wingate, Cade Tyson scoring 31. 2023: 28–4, lost the 4A final 48–53 to Christ School (Feb 25, 2023) behind a Jaeden Mustaf-led team. 2025: reached the 4A final again and lost to Christ School, which three-peated (score to verify). Regular-season records: 2021–22 26–3, 2022–23 28–4, 2016–17 21–6, 2015–16 22–8.
Boys Soccer: 2020: NCISAA 4A champion — beat Rabun Gap-Nacoochee 2–0, finishing 14–1. This was the middle of four straight finals: lost the 2019 3A final to Coastal Christian, won 2020, then lost the 2021 (1–0) and 2022 (1–0) 4A finals to Rabun Gap.
Girls Soccer: 2026: reached the NCISAA 4A final and lost 1–2 to Providence Day (May 16, 2026), finishing 14–5. The athletics site tagged the season a "2025-26 state champions" run, which conflicts with the final loss — treated here as runner-up pending confirmation.
The College Pipeline
Five Division I commits across the classes of 2024–26 — every one in basketball, and every one a mid-major. Zero Power 4. Built from the school’s official "Next Steps" college-commit roster; division and conference labels were added by the researcher from each college’s NCAA status.
All five D1 commits are basketball players who signed with mid-major programs — Big South and Sun Belt. No Carmel signee in this window went to a Power 4 school. Kam Taylor reached the ACC (Florida State) only later through the transfer portal, not as a Carmel commit.
Outside basketball, Carmel’s recent signees land overwhelmingly in NCAA Division II and III: baseball to Lander (D2), Ferrum (D3) and USC Aiken (D2); basketball also to Fayetteville State (D2) and Johnson & Wales (D3); volleyball to Winston-Salem State (D2); plus golf, tennis and dance signees. A D2/D3 offer is the common outcome, with basketball the one sport that reliably produces D1.
Cade Tyson (’22) was 2022 NC Mr. Basketball and left as the program’s recruiting headliner (Belmont → UNC → Minnesota; a 2026 NBA G League Draft Combine / Portsmouth invitee). Jaeden Mustaf, all-state at Carmel and son of ex-NBA Jerrod Mustaf, led the 2022–23 team to 28–4 and the state final before Georgia Tech → Indiana. Cody Peck (6'10", four-star, top-100 → Dayton) is often linked to Carmel but played only two seasons there and graduated elsewhere — he is not a Carmel commit.
Level labels (P4 / D1 / D2 / D3) and conferences were added by the researcher from each college’s NCAA status — they are not on the school’s list. P4 = SEC · Big Ten · ACC · Big 12. The D2/D3 rows are a representative sample of the non-D1 signees on the "Next Steps" roster, not the full list.
Honors & Pro Alumni
No confirmed professional athlete — but an NC Mr. Basketball and a high-major recruiting pipeline out of the basketball program. Carmel does not maintain a pro-alumni tracker, and no alumnus is a confirmed pro; the names below are recruiting and player-of-the-year honors.
Coaching: Pedigree & Continuity
Athletic Director Grant Coffey leads the Cougars program; individual head-coach names, tenures and records are not published. Athletic Director: Grant Coffey, BEd, CAA.
Worth knowing: Carmel’s athletics pages reference a coaches directory but list no head-coach names, tenures or career records. Those details are unpublished on the pages fetched — a deeper pass (school directory, press) would be needed to populate a coaching ledger.
National Stage & NIL
A first-wave NIL deal for a Carmel basketball alumnus — Bryce Slay signed with a national brand in August 2025. Carmel competes in NCISAA 4A, the top private-school classification; no team national-poll ranking is published.
College Support
Compare on College SupportAdmission Rates at the Top NC Public Universities
Across the six top-ranked NC public universities, Carmel Christian School’s applicants were admitted at a pooled 59.2% over the last five entering classes — 346 acceptances from 584 applications. UNC-Chapel Hill is the hard one: 25.0% in Fall 2025 — 4 of 16 — against far higher rates at the less-selective universities. These are UNC-system figures published by the state, not the school’s own.
| Rank | University | Applied | Accepted | Admit rate from this school | 5-yr avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | UNC-Chapel Hill Flagship · Chapel Hill · the most selective of the six | 16 | 4 | 25.0% | 32.7%113 applied · 37 in |
| #2 | NC State University Flagship STEM · Raleigh | 26 | 8 | 30.8% | 32.5%126 applied · 41 in |
| #3 | UNC Charlotte Hometown campus | 30 | 17 | 56.7% | 76.9%130 applied · 100 in |
| #4 | East Carolina University Greenville · eastern NC · largest admit rates of the six | 20 | 20 | 100.0% | 91.5%71 applied · 65 in |
| #5 | UNC Wilmington Coastal · mid-selectivity | 31 | 19 | 61.3% | 70.1%117 applied · 82 in |
| #6 | UNC Greensboro Piedmont Triad | 9 | 9 | 100.0% | 77.8%27 applied · 21 in |
Read each row as a joint figure: the rate at which that university admitted this school’s applicants — not the university’s overall admit rate, and not a measure of the school’s own selectivity. Applied/Accepted are the Fall 2025 entering class; the 5-yr column pools Fall 2021–2025 as sum(accepted)/sum(applied), so a heavy year counts more than a light one. Counts travel with every rate because several cells are single-digit.
The Transcript Colleges See
73% of seniors scored a 3 or higher on at least one AP exam, and 80% sat at least one — enough for the College Board’s Platinum AP School Honor Roll, its top tier. A broad-participation AP program: 14 AP courses across 21 sections taught by 12 teachers, with 19% of seniors sitting five or more exams.
The Counseling Engine
One dedicated, NACCAP-certified college counselor runs a fully published program — a grade-by-grade timeline, a signature “College Boot Camp”, an essay workshop, and an admissions panel. Naviance and the Common Application are the tools; a separate academic advisor and personal counselor carry course-planning and pastoral load off the college office.
That is the office’s own published “Anatomy of a College Application” framework, verbatim — eight named parts. The signature “College Boot Camp” bundles a Boot Camp Day with follow-up “Logins and Letters” sessions; a student essay-writing workshop plus proofing runs alongside, with the 11th-grade rough draft read by Berry and English faculty.
Where Graduates Go
Around 215 institutions appear on the published College Acceptances list — Princeton and Duke at the top, through a deep bench of NC publics and Christian colleges. The page carries no time window, no counts and no matriculation markings, so it reads as a cumulative acceptance list. Here it is scored against the current U.S. News tiers.
| Tier | On list |
|---|---|
| Ivy League — Princeton | 1 / 8 |
| “Ivy Plus” — adds Duke | 2 / 17 |
| Top-75 National Universities | 32 / 75 |
| Top-75 Liberal Arts — incl. Davidson, Washington & Lee, Furman, Rhodes, Sewanee, Richmond, Trinity, Wofford, Agnes Scott, Centre | 10 / 75 |
| Power Four | 44 / 68 |
| HBCUs — incl. Hampton, Howard, NC A&T, Florida A&M | 8 / 107 |
Counts are derived by this research from the same ~215-institution list you can filter at right, scored against the 2026 U.S. News tables — not figures the school reports. The list preserves the page’s verbatim duplicates (SCAD appears three ways; Alabama appears bare and as Tuscaloosa/Birmingham/Huntsville), and includes two non-college destinations — the United States Marine Corps and NASCAR Technical Institute.
211 college names link to their homepages.
The school publishes no scholarship-offer totals and no named-award ledger anywhere in the materials located for this pass.
Honest caveat: this is an acceptance list, not a matriculation list — and unlike some peer schools it marks no enrollments at all, so it shows breadth of acceptances rather than where students actually enrolled. No time window or counts are stated, so a name means at least one acceptance at some point.
The Applicant's Edge
The edge here is a fully published, sequenced counseling program plus a broad-participation AP record — legibility and cadence rather than national-competition credentials. What the school hands a family is a documented four-year plan and a top-tier College Board recognition; what it does not publish is a research-program or Olympiad track.
No research program, Olympiad results, or national-competition credentials are published — the differentiators are cadence and legibility, not competition results.
Whole Class Analytics
The 2024–25 profile publishes Class of 2024 test and GPA data as ranges, not distributions — a middle 50% for SAT, ACT and GPA, and nothing behind it. The school does not rank, so the weighted range stands in for class position — but with no percentiles, quintiles or tester counts published, the shape of the class behind these ranges is not recoverable.
| SAT total (middle 50%) | 1060–1260 |
| ACT composite (middle 50%) | 22–30 |
Ranges only — the profile publishes the middle 50%, not percentiles or tester counts.
| Weighted GPA | 3.67–4.50 |
| Unweighted GPA | 3.29–3.81 |
Ranges, not a quintile distribution — the school does not rank, and no GPA quantiles are published.
No structured learning-differences program, resource room, or accommodations detail is published, and no figures on how testing accommodations are documented were located for this pass.
Verdict & Visit Checklist
A well-documented, sequenced counseling program and a broad-participation AP record — with the current-year quantitative profile the one real hole a visit should close. The process disclosure is unusually complete for a school this size; the outcomes and test data are thinner, and the latest profile could not be located.
After School
Compare on After SchoolThe Coverage Map
The Extended Day Program covers K through grade 8 until 6:00 p.m., split between the kindergarten Young Cougars Club and After School care for grades 1–8. Before-school care opens at 7:30 a.m. for CCS students, and a longer WEE-School sibling window runs to 9:00 a.m. The whole program is built on the school’s “Grow and Go” mission — “GROW to become followers of Christ and GO make Him known to the world.”
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grades 1–8 · K after YCC
Prices on the bars are the full-time monthly rate — 5 days a week, billed over 9 months. Each session is also sold at 3 days a week for less, and drop-in at a flat per-day rate; open The Cost Planner below to price any combination.
TO VERIFYA free Morning Sibling Care exists at 7:35 a.m. in the Worship Center, but it is NOT part of the paid Extended Day program — it is separate supervised early drop-off.
PUBLICATION GAPThe 2026-2027 web overview shows Extended Day as “Registration for 2026-2027 is now full.” That is an operational capacity status, not a change to the published hours or prices, but it means a mid-year applicant may face a waitlist.
The Cost Planner
Every session is priced as a flat monthly rate by days per week — 5-day, 3-day, or drop-in — billed monthly over 9 months through FACTS. All rates below are published in the school’s 2026-2027 Extended Day Handbook, so nothing here is projected. The rate does not scale linearly with days, so a 3-day schedule is its own published figure rather than a fraction of the 5-day price.
| Grade · pickup slot (monthly) | 1 day EST. | 2 days EST. | 3 days VERIFIED | 4 days EST. | 5 days VERIFIED |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | $75 | — | $110 | |
| — | — | $130 | — | $220 | |
| — | — | $175 | — | $230 | |
| — | — | $190 | — | $245 |
Enrollment is 5-day, 3-day, or drop-in, first-come first-serve and space-limited. The WEE-School Before School tier is a separate rate for CCS siblings in the WEE School, not a discount on the standard rate.
PUBLICATION GAPNo annual dollar total is published. The handbook gives monthly rates billed over 9 months but never states a school-year figure, so the totals here are the monthly rate × 9.
PUBLICATION GAPNo registration fee and no sibling discount are published for Extended Day. Neither is stated to exist or not exist — they are simply absent from the handbook.
TO VERIFYOnly 5-day and 3-day rates are published for each session — there is no separate 1-, 2- or 4-day rate, so the intermediate columns show “—.” Occasional days go through the flat drop-in rate instead.
A Day Inside + Enrichment
The kindergarten afternoon is the Young Cougars Club — a structured, literature-based program, not a holding room — while grades 1–8 move into After School care with homework space. Young Cougars Club runs three rotations — story, art and activities — around a weekly educational theme, then joins the elementary After School group for the last hour of the day.
The Extended Day mission is “GROW to become followers of Christ and GO make Him known to the world” (Matthew 28:19–20) — the “Grow and Go” framing. Young Cougars Club is described as “a structured, literature based program with 3 rotations (story, art and activities) with exciting and educational weekly themes.” After School care for grades 1–8 provides space for homework, with a separate area for Middle School students.
PUBLICATION GAPThe 2026-2027 enrichment and music-lesson list is not yet published (“coming August 2026”). No class names, instructors, days, grade bands or per-class fees are available for the coming year.
PUBLICATION GAPNo staff-to-child ratio or group size is published for YCC or After School care, and no hour-by-hour schedule is given for the grades 1–8 afternoon beyond “homework space.”
Verdict & Visit Checklist
A single K–8 program that covers the whole work day — 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. — with fully published, plainly priced rates and a genuinely structured kindergarten afternoon. The open questions are capacity (the year is already “full”), the missing enrichment list, and the unpublished registration fee and sibling discount — exactly what a visit answers.
Summer Programs
Compare on Summer ProgramsThe Camp Catalog
All 36 “Summer Adventures” camps for 2026 — a half-day slate (9 a.m.–12 p.m., Mon–Thu) for rising K through rising 8th grade, priced flat at $180 a four-day week and $150 a three-day week. Six non-contiguous weeks run June 8 – July 23, 2026 (no camps the week of June 22–25). Weeks 2 and 3 are three-day weeks — Juneteenth and July 4 — and are priced down to $150.
The full 36-camp slate is listed — this is the school’s whole published catalog, not a sample. Grades shown are rising grades. Per-camp price does not vary; it follows the week type ($180 four-day / $150 three-day). Categories are inferred from the camp names — the school prints no category labels — and are flagged below.
| Camp | When | Grades | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Girl® CampGeneral enrichment General enrichment week themed on the American Girl world. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 1 (Jun 8–11) | Rising K–5 | $180 |
| Boys Basketball for Grades 3-5: Cougar Skills CampAthletics Basketball skills camp for rising 3rd–5th grade boys. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 1 (Jun 8–11) | Rising 3–5 | $180 |
| God's CreationFaith Faith-themed week exploring the created world. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 1 (Jun 8–11) | Rising 1–8 | $180 |
| Junior Cougar Volleyball CampAthletics Introductory volleyball for rising 3rd–6th graders. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 1 (Jun 8–11) | Rising 3–6 | $180 |
| Kids in the KitchenCooking Hands-on cooking week for rising 3rd–8th graders. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 1 (Jun 8–11) | Rising 3–8 | $180 |
| Let's Build It! LEGO® CampSTEM & Engineering LEGO® building and engineering for rising 1st–3rd graders. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 1 (Jun 8–11) | Rising 1–3 | $180 |
| Girly Swirly CampGeneral enrichment Craft-and-play enrichment week for rising 2nd–4th grade girls. | Mon–Wed (3-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 2 (Jun 15–17) | Rising 2–4 | $150 |
| Lady Cougars Basketball CampAthletics Girls basketball skills camp for rising 5th–8th graders. | Mon–Wed (3-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 2 (Jun 15–17) | Rising 5–8 | $150 |
| Mini Movie MakingArts & Crafts Film-making week for rising 3rd–8th graders. | Mon–Wed (3-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 2 (Jun 15–17) | Rising 3–8 | $150 |
| Nerf® CampAthletics Active Nerf® games week for rising 2nd–6th graders. | Mon–Wed (3-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 2 (Jun 15–17) | Rising 2–6 | $150 |
| Ocean ExplorersGeneral enrichment Ocean-themed enrichment week for the youngest campers. | Mon–Wed (3-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 2 (Jun 15–17) | Rising K–2 | $150 |
| Boys Basketball for Grades 1-2: Carmel Rising Stars CampAthletics Entry-level basketball for rising 1st–2nd grade boys. | Mon–Wed (3-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 3 (Jun 29–Jul 1) | Rising 1–2 | $150 |
| Dude Perfect Bro CampAthletics Trick-shot and games week for rising 3rd–6th graders. | Mon–Wed (3-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 3 (Jun 29–Jul 1) | Rising 3–6 | $150 |
| Flower Shop CampArts & Crafts Floral-craft week for rising 1st–4th graders. | Mon–Wed (3-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 3 (Jun 29–Jul 1) | Rising 1–4 | $150 |
| Not So Sleepy Slumber Party CampGeneral enrichment Slumber-party-themed enrichment week for rising 2nd–5th graders. | Mon–Wed (3-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 3 (Jun 29–Jul 1) | Rising 2–5 | $150 |
| STEM CampSTEM & Engineering Science and engineering activities for rising 1st–4th graders. | Mon–Wed (3-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 3 (Jun 29–Jul 1) | Rising 1–4 | $150 |
| Amazing RaceGeneral enrichment Team-challenge enrichment week for rising 2nd–5th graders. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 4 (Jul 6–9) | Rising 2–5 | $180 |
| Animation AdventuresSTEM & Engineering Animation-making week for rising K–3rd graders. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 4 (Jul 6–9) | Rising K–3 | $180 |
| Baking & BeyondCooking Baking-focused cooking week for rising 1st–5th graders. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 4 (Jul 6–9) | Rising 1–5 | $180 |
| Girls Volleyball for Grades 5-8Athletics Volleyball skills camp for rising 5th–8th grade girls. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 4 (Jul 6–9) | Rising 5–8 | $180 |
| LEGO® Brick Masters AcademySTEM & Engineering Advanced LEGO® building for rising 4th–6th graders. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 4 (Jul 6–9) | Rising 4–6 | $180 |
| Let's Be Famous ArtistsArts & Crafts Visual-arts week for rising 1st–8th graders. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 4 (Jul 6–9) | Rising 1–8 | $180 |
| Pickleball for Rising 3-5 GradesAthletics Pickleball skills camp for rising 3rd–5th graders. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 4 (Jul 6–9) | Rising 3–5 | $180 |
| Art-Cycling StudioArts & Crafts Recycled-materials art studio for rising 2nd–5th graders. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 5 (Jul 13–16) | Rising 2–5 | $180 |
| Camp Barbie®General enrichment Barbie-themed enrichment week for rising K–5th graders. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 5 (Jul 13–16) | Rising K–5 | $180 |
| Carmel CastleGeneral enrichment Imaginative-play enrichment week for the youngest campers. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 5 (Jul 13–16) | Rising K–2 | $180 |
| Medium MadnessArts & Crafts Mixed-media art week for rising 1st–8th graders. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 5 (Jul 13–16) | Rising 1–8 | $180 |
| Nerf® CampAthletics Active Nerf® games week for rising 2nd–6th graders. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 5 (Jul 13–16) | Rising 2–6 | $180 |
| Pickleball for Rising Middle SchoolAthletics Pickleball skills camp for rising 6th–8th graders. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 5 (Jul 13–16) | Rising 6–8 | $180 |
| 2nd & 3rd Grade BootcampGeneral enrichment Enrichment bootcamp for rising 2nd–3rd graders. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 6 (Jul 20–23) | Rising 2–3 | $180 |
| Boys Basketball for Grades 6-8: Carmel Future CampAthletics Basketball skills camp for rising 6th–8th grade boys. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 6 (Jul 20–23) | Rising 6–8 | $180 |
| Broadway BoundArts & Crafts Musical-theater week for rising 3rd–6th graders. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 6 (Jul 20–23) | Rising 3–6 | $180 |
| Crafting with Cricut®Arts & Crafts Cricut® craft week for rising 4th–8th graders. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 6 (Jul 20–23) | Rising 4–8 | $180 |
| Engineering CampSTEM & Engineering Hands-on engineering challenges for rising 3rd–6th graders. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 6 (Jul 20–23) | Rising 3–6 | $180 |
| Favorite CharactersGeneral enrichment Story-and-character enrichment week for rising 1st–8th graders. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 6 (Jul 20–23) | Rising 1–8 | $180 |
| Game On! Adventure CampGeneral enrichment Games-and-adventure enrichment week for rising 1st–3rd graders. | Mon–Thu (4-day) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Week 6 (Jul 20–23) | Rising 1–3 | $180 |
TO VERIFYThe six categories (Athletics, Arts & Crafts, STEM & Engineering, Cooking, Faith, General enrichment) are inferred from the camp names — the school prints no category labels on its Summer Adventures pages.
PUBLICATION GAPNo before-care or full-day option is published — the only wrap-around care is the 12–1 p.m. After Camp Lunch Hour. Sibling discount, early-bird and deposit are not published either.
The Summer Cost Planner
Camp itself is a flat $180 a four-day week ($150 the two three-day weeks) — then the only add-on is a $40 After Camp Lunch Hour ($30 the short weeks). Six weeks are available, June 8 – July 23, 2026, with no camps the week of June 22–25. Weeks 2 and 3 are three-day weeks and cost less. All camps are half-day, 9 a.m.–12 p.m., Monday–Thursday.
| Camp tier | Per week |
|---|---|
The standard week (Weeks 1, 4, 5 and 6). Half-day, Monday–Thursday. | $180 |
Weeks 2 and 3 only — the Juneteenth and July 4 weeks run Monday–Wednesday. | $150 |
A registration fee is charged at sign-up, but the school does not publish the amount.
The only wrap-around care is the 12–1 p.m. After Camp Lunch Hour — there is no published before-care and no full-day option. Add the four-day rate ($40) for a standard week or the three-day rate ($30) for Weeks 2 and 3.
PUBLICATION GAPThe registration fee amount is not published — the school references a fee at sign-up but never states it. No sibling discount, early-bird or deposit is published either.
Financial Aid & Tuition
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Tuition & Financial Aid — Deep Dive Report
Unpublished ≠ deficient. "Not published" flags a transparency gap — never a judgement that the aid programme is small or unwelcoming.
Published ≠ current. Every dollar figure carries the school year it applies to. The tuition table is the school's own 2026–27 PDF, dated 5 December 2025; undated figures are flagged, not guessed.
K–12 aid only. Tuition assistance while enrolled — not college aid. Not financial advice.
Meters show how fully each section could be answered from published evidence — a disclosure score, not a rating of the school.
Tuition by Grade Level
A separate "2026-2027 International Student Tuition" PDF is referenced on the aid page but was not retrieved; international rates are not captured here.
Four bands from kindergarten through grade 12, a $6,250 spread from lowest to highest. Figures are the school's own 2026–27 Tuition and Enrollment Fees PDF, dated 5 December 2025. No rate history is published, and none was recovered from the archive, so no prior-year comparison is drawn.
Fees and Additional Costs
The $500 enrollment (or re-enrollment) fee is non-refundable and, per the school, must be paid in full at the time of enrollment. The grade-9 technology fee and the $200 senior fee are the only other priced add-ons; the PDF names athletics, fine arts, AP classes, Impact Week and the Senior Trip as additional costs without stating amounts.
Aid Process and Timeline
FACTS runs the need assessment and the monthly tuition draft. The NC Opportunity Scholarship (a state voucher) is actively referenced as a funding layer.
No decision timeline, no appeals process, and no award-ceiling policy appears on the public record. Any FACTS application fee, and whether aid must be reapplied for annually, are also unstated. No ESA+ or other named partnership appears in the retrieved sources.
What the Numbers Disclose
Carmel Christian is a ministry of Carmel Baptist Church and, as a church-affiliated organisation, is not required to file Form 990 — ProPublica returns no filing for the school itself. Every other school in this project (bar Covenant Day) is a 990 filer whose aid totals can be checked against its return; here there is no filing to check, so the gap is structural rather than a page waiting to be found.
A related nonprofit, the Carmel Educational Foundation (EIN 56-2107877), does file: FY2025 (year ending 31 July) total revenue $1,068,745, total expenses $618,023, net assets $1,894,088, with contributions ~93.6% of revenue. But the return carries no separate scholarship or grant line, and the Foundation-to-school link, while probable, is not explicitly stated — so it yields no school-level aid figure and is not presented as one.
Merit, Discounts & State Scholarships
ALL SCHOOL AID IS NEED-BASEDNo merit scholarships appear on the public record — school aid is need-based only. No sibling discount before the third child, no military or clergy discount, and no employee-remission policy is published. No ESA+ or other named state partnership appears in the retrieved sources.
Payment Plans & Contract Terms
The number of monthly installments and any FACTS plan fee are not stated on the public pages — they live inside the family's FACTS portal. No annual or paid-in-full alternative, no prepayment discount, and no late-payment or withdrawal terms appear on the retrieved sources.
The Trend, and What to Ask
- Q1What share of families receive aid, and what is the average award? (The ~20% figure is third-party and unverified.)
- Q2How many monthly installments does the FACTS plan run, and does it carry a fee?
- Q3Is there an appeals or mid-year change-of-circumstance process, and when are decisions released relative to enrollment?
- Q4What do athletics, fine arts, AP classes, Impact Week and the Senior Trip actually cost?
- Q5What are the 2026–27 international-student tuition rates?
- Q6How does the NC Opportunity Scholarship interact with any school aid for families above the former income cap?