Community News to share. Reminder tax free weekend will be July 25-27. School Supply lists are posted on the ACS website https://athensschoolstn.sites.thrillshare.com/documents/parents-%26-students/school-supplies/22975152
The upcoming school year's school supply lists are posted on our website by school and grade level.
https://athensschoolstn.sites.thrillshare.com/documents/parents-%26-students/school-supplies/22975152
Join the Kids Connection team! We’re hiring for the 2026–2027 school year in our Before and After School Learning Program. Apply today! https://www.applitrack.com/athenscityschools/onlineapp/default.aspx?Category=Support+Staff
Athens City Schools is now enrolling new students for the 2026–2027 school year in Pre-K through 8th grade. Registration packets are available for pickup at the Athens City Schools Administration Office, located at 943 Crestway Drive. #ExcellenceIsACS
What an awesome week with summer feeding at Athens City. We distributed over 1100+ meals a day. We are ready for another fantastic week. Come see us daily at our feeding locations. Any child 2-18 years gets a free meal.
6th graders built their own pendulum learning about kinetic and potential energy. #ACMSCougarExperience
Another excellent day at our ACMS Cougar Experience. Our rising 8th grade finished up their hovercrafts with a lot of trial and error in figuring out the wires, and they were able to use their brain power to get them to work. At the end they raced them! To end the STEM day they learned how to extract DNA from a strawberry.
Meanwhile, our rising 7th grade was visited again by Dr. Davis and Seekins. They took them through a Hands Only CPR and First Aid skills course and earned a certificate of participation.
Athens City Schools is now enrolling students for the 2026–2027 school year. Registration for Pre-K through 8th grade is available throughout the summer, Monday–Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at 943 Crestway Drive. For more information, call 423-745-2863.
There was a lot going on at our ACMS Cougar Experience today. Student engagement is one of our main goals. From small groups in reading to discussions surrounding problem solving, there is a lot of learning happening. We also had Dr. Long and her students from Tennessee Wesleyan University came and talked about the Kilbride Nature Sanctuary. The students became scientists and helped them identify different types of Lichen on branches and ended with looking through microscopes to find plankton and macroinvertebrates from the Tennessee River. Meanwhile, our older students were able to take the opportunity to visit the STEM bus. All in all, it was a great day.
Today the Athens City Police Department came and showed our students how to lift a fingerprint, what different blood spatters look like, and went through a crime scene! What a great opportunity for these students to learn about forensic science!
ACMS Cougar Experience finished off the first week of summer camp with a visit from Dr. Davis and Seekins from Tennessee Wesleyan University. They talked about the movement of muscles and bones in the body with our rising 7th and 8th grade students. The students demonstrated different locomotive movements and built structures of the bones and muscles.
What a fun day at our ACMS Cougar Experience! Our rising 6th grade students were making their finishing touches on their hot air balloons in preparation for the launch tomorrow. Dr. West and Dr. Kasper from Lee University visited our rising 7th graders. They did chromatography and organ building to make chambers of the heart. Our rising 8th graders finished their Newtons Cradles and were visited by the Creative Discovery Museum where they had the opportunity to learn about and make electromagnets. It was a full and exciting day!
ACMS rising 6th graders continued to work on production of their hot air balloons. We can’t wait to launch them Thursday. #ExcellenceIsACMS
ACMS Cougar Experience students are so thankful for the books from the Let’s Read 20 bus. The students loved being able to pick out their books.
Free physicals will be available June 4 at Mcminn County High School! Please see the flyer below for all the details! Remember you just have a physical to participate in all ACMS athletics!
We are off to a great start at our 2026 ACMS Cougar Experience. Our sixth graders are getting started on their hot air balloons which we will launch on Thursday. Seventh graders had an introduction to human and frog anatomy to prepare them for frog dissections next week. While our eighth grade had an introduction to Newtons three laws and got started creating their own Newton's Cradle. #ExcellenceIsACMS
Reminder: Students will be dismissed on abbreviated schedule today.
🕚 PreK: 11:45 a.m.
🕧 Grades K–2: 12:25 p.m.
🕛 Grades 3–5: 12:10 p.m.
🕦 Grades 6–8: 11:30 a.m.
ACMS has been represented this weekend by 8 wonderful students at the International Academic Competitions: National Quiz Bowl Championships in Orlando, Florida!
They have competed for two days in 4 rounds of intense academic competition against over 2,000 of the nations best quiz bowl champions in the History, Geography, Science and Spelling Bees! We are so proud of their hard work, accomplishments, and for representing our school and community with class. Go Cougars!” #excellenceisACMS
Thankful for The Barn at Faith Farms hosting our 8th grade prom tonight. A great time was had by ALL. The food was a highlight provided via Party Plates Catering by K.Jones. #excellenceisThe BarnatFaithFarms
#excellenceisACMS #excellenceispartyplatescatering
Ready and excited for 8th grade graduation tonight. It has been a great school year. #excellenceisACMS
