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Math teacher, Gurpreet ‘Guppi’ Berger, stands atop the Davidson Fire Department’s Engine 1 during Spartan Day 2023. She uses the fire hose to spray students with water on the Community School of Davidson field during the outdoor activities.
Cranking it up then signing it off
Macy Balmat, Student Life Editor, Opinions Editor • May 19, 2025
The activities begin even before classes end and continue until the final student leaves for the summer and seniors graduate. From final advisory senior send-offs, senior golf, senior flex week (that even includes seniors spending the day in caps and gowns at the lower school), pranks, final theater and music performances, powder puff then Spartan Day, there is literally something for everyone.
As both AP and EOC exams get underway, the Community School of Davidson (CSD) high school morphs into a different academically structured creature.
“Where, oh where, is my class meeting?”
Dylan Sherman, Copy Editor, Deputy Sports Editor • May 12, 2025
In the month of May, most if not all of the students at CSD are forced to change their ways at school, whether it is where they sit at lunch, access to their lockers, or where their classes meet each day.
Sports
CSD Spartans fall athletes line their bags up along the hallway outside Griffin Gym before their practices and games. The return of sporting equipment means it’s time for fall athletes to get back to doing what they love.
Fall sports return to CSD for the 2025 season
Dylan Sherman and Carter Burch • October 7, 2025

Fall sports are back in session at the Community School of Davidson (CSD). Get ready to watch sports that range from girls volleyball to football, as well as cross-country, cheerleading and girls tennis. All the Spartans teams...

Senior receiver Sam Mack (‘26) catches CSD’s first home touchdown of the game against South Mecklenburg. Despite the loss, Mack’s touchdown was a good sign for the Spartans offense to begin the season. (CSD Journalism class photo.)
Spartans football hits the road and finds their footing after two tough home losses
Dylan Sherman and Carter Burch • September 23, 2025

On Friday, September 12, 2025, the Community School of Davidson (CSD) varsity football team traveled north of Winston-Salem to King, North Carolina, for a Friday night matchup against West Stokes High School that proved to be...

Opinions
Student journalist and story writer, Carter Burch (‘29), enters CSD’s front doors. It’s never easy starting at a new school, let alone as a ninth grader beginning at a new high school, but Burch has absorbed what it means to be a Spartan both in and out of the classroom.
OPINION – First impressions can become lasting ones if you approach it openly and the situation is right
Carter Burch, Opinions Editor, Deputy Sports Editor • October 19, 2025

Before I ever set foot in the Community School of Davidson (CSD) High School building, I knew my way around Spartan Park, specifically the soccer field. I’ve been a soccer player...

Gavin, a show horse, enjoys his time outside in his field. This pasture time is necessary for the mental and physical health of a horse, especially while they are young.
From the history of the sport to the modern day horses and riders, Thoroughbred racing kills
Macy Balmat, Student Life Editor, Opinions Editor • May 12, 2025
While extremely profitable and entertaining to many people, Thoroughbred racing is a risky and dangerous industry that disregards the health and safety of both horse and jockey. Thoroughbred racing is overall a highly toxic industry that survives off of the abuse and death of horses and riders.
Features
A CSD American History class completes a lap around the high school building during a learning period. The simply practice, started as a way to give students a break from desks and classrooms, follows Dr. Ernest Boyer’s model for successful learning.
Let’s take a lap
Akhilan Kumaran, News Editor, Features Editor • October 8, 2025
To be more specific, taking a walk is about dropping pens, closing Chromebooks, getting up from desks, exiting the building to walk around the outside then returning to continue learning.
Community School of Davidson (CSD)’s front parking lot is packed full of various vehicles, several of which can often be seen parking without much care for guidelines or other drivers and regard for reserved spaces.
Cars here, there, everywhere, nowhere
Macy Balmat, Student Life Editor, Opinions Editor • May 10, 2025
Many first time and young drivers get overwhelmed by the complexity of the school parking. With cars surrounding all four sides of the building, side street parking lining the neighborhoods, and empty lots at nearby establishments left unmarked, it can be difficult to determine where you are wanted and where you’ll get in trouble for leaving a car.
A & E
6 of the 10 recommended books sit on a classroom desk. No matter if you read them in print or electronically, reading is a way to enter another reality.
Flipping the pages
Mario Hardy, Arts & Entertainment Editor, New Ideas and Initiatives Manager • September 30, 2025
… Reading can fix that by reading a little at a time and increasing your stamina.
Gracyn McRorie (‘26) stands next to her piece that she contributed to CSD Visual Arts’ first project of the year. Along with colors, lines and shapes, she added a volleyball and soccer ball to represent the sports she plays.
Flat Stanley, meet some flat Spartans
Kennedy Donley, Visual Media and Public Relations Editor, Student Life Editor • September 19, 2025

If you take a walk through Learning Street at Community School of Davidson high school, in addition to noticing students both studying in classrooms...

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Student Life
Students work with volunteers to pick up their school lunches each day. Hot lunch lines start after the end of 4th block for whoever ordered on the specific day.
A different approach to school lunches
Dylan Sherman, Sports Editor, Copy Editor • November 6, 2025

As fourth block comes to a close each day, and students begin to get hungry, a white van from Mama’s Pizza Express, a local full-service restaurant,...

CSD senior “Lifer” Kennedy Donley (‘26) looks back at her kindergarten yearbook photo. Nearly 50 seniors have shared a journey that began at age five.
Final chapter begins for CSD’s Lifers
Liam Hogan, Podcast Editor, Student Life Editor • October 7, 2025

For most seniors at the Community School of Davidson, graduation marks the end of a 4-year journey, but for a special group, it's the end of...

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