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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

With no cafeteria, lunch options are much different at CSD
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, pulls up the front door and unloads warming bags full...

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The whiteboard in CSD’s technology classroom overflows with ideas. As CSD’S new Instructional Facilitator, Lindsey In spends her days moving from classroom to classroom supporting teachers and helping to integrate educational technologies into curriculums.

Spartan Questionnaire* (#15) featuring Lindsey In (*where we take a break from AP Style writing and get right to the good Q&A stuff with CSD people)

Elena Cunningham, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Creative Content Manager
October 19, 2025

Lindsey In is not only in her first year at Community School of Davidson (CSD) High School, she’s trying out a new position, too. Having spent the last 8 years teaching 5th grade Math & Science at...

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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

How a new 9th grader is transitioning into a brand new high school
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 for 10 years and one...

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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

How a seven minute group walk around the CSD High School building can connect a class and build bonds that promote yearlong learning
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.
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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

As seniors return for their final year, a group within the class reflects on roots that run deep
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 a 13-year journey that started way back in the elementary school...

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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

10 books to read this 2026 CSD school year
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.
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From left: Kennedy Donley (‘26), Gracyn McRorie (‘26), Kelly Rogers (‘27) and Lizzie Shields (‘27) prepare for takeoff on Frankie’s go-cart track. The Association for Applied Sports Psychology says team-building activities and shared experiences can help foster mutual trust and cooperation. (Photo by Coach Betsy Miller)

Photo story – Hard hitters and fast friends

CSD’s girls varsity volleyball team builds off-court connections and friendships during a team bonding event at Frankie’s
Elena Cunningham, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Creative Content Manager
September 29, 2025

What is the difference between being teammates and being friends? Different answers may include shared qualities like a sense of humor or just whether or not a friendship “clicks.” The Community School...

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Allyson Cole stands smiling next to the iconic “Cole” letters that hang on her classroom door. Coming from Hopewell High School she is excited to begin her first year.

Spartan Questionnaire* (#14) featuring Allyson Cole (*where we take a break from AP Style writing and get right to the good Q&A stuff with CSD people)

Max Shealy, Editor-in-Chief
September 23, 2025

Just a month into her new CSD job teaching English 3 and 4, Allyson Cole, who came from Hopewell High School, sat for a Spartan Questionnaire. As an initiative to gain a better grasp of new teachers’...

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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

The CSD art department’s first project of the year has larger than life creative student cut outs hanging on walls all around the school
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 and congregating in small groups along the hall, you...

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A larger than life Spartan mural along the gym hall welcomes students daily and serves as a visual reminder of the spirit and energy that fill the school. From pep rallies and advisory to service learning and sports (and lots more in between) it’s a great time to be a CSD student.

26 reasons why the 2026 CSD school year will be a special one

Welcome back, Spartans. Here’s what the Journalism team believes makes the cut.
Max Shealy, Elena Cunningham, Dylan Sherman, Akhilan Kumaran, Mario Hardy, Kennedy Donley, Liam Hogan, and Carter Burch
September 2, 2025

As CSD students come back and prepare for another year, excitement is high in one of the most unique high schools in the state. Here are the Journalism staff’s picks for 26 things that will make this...

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