Family Engagement Events - Wilson County Schools

District Title I Events

Transition to Third Grade (RtA)

Tuesday, September 23, 2025
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Jones Elementary School
4028 Highway 42 W

Pre Kindergarten Literary Night

Thursday, November 13, 2025
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Jones Elementary School
4028 Highway 42 W

Transition to High School

Thursday, January 15, 2025
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Forest Hills Middle School
1210 Forest Hills Rd NW

Math Around the House for Pre-K

Tuesday, February 19, 2026
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Hearne Elementary School
300 Gold St E, Wilson, NC 27893

Night of Arts

Tuesday, February 26, 2026
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Lucama Elementary School
6260 E Blalock Rd, Lucama, NC 27851

WCS STEMposium

Thursday, April 16, 2026
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Fike High School
500 Harrison Dr N

Getting Ready for Kindergarten

Wednesday, April 22, 2026
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Jones Elementary School
4028 NC-42, Wilson, NC 27893

Multilingual Title I Events

Infinite Campus

Tuesday, September 9, 2025
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Darden Middle School
1665 Lipscomb Road

International Festival

Tuesday, November 18, 2025
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Jones Elementary School
4028 Highway 42 W

Reading Celebration

Tuesday, March 31, 2026
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Hearne Elementary School
300 W. Gold Stree

College & Careers

Tuesday, May 5, 2025
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Jones Elementary School
4028 Highway 42 W

Barnes Elementary

Bobcat Parent Academy 1 / Annual Title I

Thursday, August 21, 2025
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Bobcat Parent Academy 2/Literacy Night; Goal Setting

Thursday, September 25, 2025
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Bobcat Parent Academy 3/One School, One Book

Monday, January 12, 2026
8:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Bobcat Parent Academy 4/Report Card Pickup/STEM Night

Friday, March 27, 2026
8:30AM - 11:30 AM

Bobcat Parent Academy 5/Grade Level Transition Meetings

Thursday, May 20, 2026 - Tuesday, May 27, 2026
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Beddingfield High

Freshmen Orientation & Title I Annual Meeting

Tuesday, August 19, 2025
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Open House and Title I Annual Mtg

Thursday, August 21, 2025
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Senior Night

Wednesday, September 17, 2025
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Transition Night/Curriculum Fair

Thursday, November 6, 2025
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Agriculture STEM Night

Thursday, March 12, 2026
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Junior Night

Wednesday, April 1, 2026
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Forest Hills Middle

Annual Title I Meeting/ 6th grade Orientation

Tuesday, August 19, 2025
6:00 PM

Annual Title I Meeting & 7th and 8th Grade Open House

Thursday, August 21, 2025
6:00 PM

EL Parent Night

Tuesday, September 16, 2025
5:30 PM

1st 9 weeks Report Card Pick-up Night/ Parent Conferences

Monday, October 27, 2025
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

BUCK Fest - Books and Bingo/Literacy Night

Friday, March 13, 2026
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

6th Grade Night

Thursday, May 14, 2026
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Frederick Douglass Elementary

Annual Title 1 Night/Open House

Thursday, August 21, 2025
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Trick, Treat and Read

Thursday, October 30, 2025
5:30 PM - 6:45 PM

MOY Conference

Thursday, January 15, 2026
5:00 PM - 6:45 PM

STEM Night

Thursday, March 19, 2026
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Transition Parent Night for Rising K, 3rd and 6th grade students

Thursday, April 23, 2026
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Hearne Elementary

Open House/Grade Level Expectations/Annual Title I Parent Night

Thursday, August 21, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Math Night & Report Card Pickup

Monday, October 27, 2025
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

STEM Night

Thursday, January 22, 2026
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Parent Conferences & Report Card Pickup

Monday, March 23, 2026
3:0 3PM - 5:30 PM

Level Up Night

Thursday, April 30, 2026
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Jones Elementary

Welcome to Kindergarten!

Friday, August 15, 2025
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Open House and Annual Title I Meeting

Thursday, August 21, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Fall into STEM Event

Thursday, October 2, 2025
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Shop with the Lion

Thursday, November 20, 2025
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

One School One Book and Spring Book Fair Event

Tuesday, March 3, 2026
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Here We Grow Again!

Thursday, April 23, 2026
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Lee Woodard Elementary

Title 1 Open House/Annual Meeting

Thursday, August 21, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Report Card and Family Conference Night

Monday, October 27, 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

One School, One Book Literacy Night/Report Card and Family Conference Night

Monday, March 23, 2026
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Rising Kindergarten and 3rd grade Transition Night

Thursday, May 28, 2026
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Speight Middle

Annual Title I Parent Orientation 6th Grade

Tuesday, August 19, 2025
5:00 PM

Annual Title I Parent Orientation 7th/8th Grade

Thursday, August 21, 2025
5:00 PM

Beauties and Bagels

Tuesday, October 2, 2025
9:00 AM

Pastries and Pops

Wednesday, February 4, 2026
9:00 AM

Multicultural Night

Friday, March 6, 2026
4:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Moving up Night

Thursday, May 7, 2026
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Stantonsburg Elementary

Title I Annual Meeting

Thursday, August 21, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

STEM Night

Tuesday, November 18, 2025
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Report Card Pick-Up/Parent Conference Night

Monday, January 12, 2026
3:20 PM - 6:30 PM

Read Across Stantonsburg

Wednesday, March 4, 2026
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Kindergarten and 3rd Grade Transition Night

Tuesday, May 5, 2026
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Vick Elementary

Our School Your School: Newcomer Parent Workshop

Wednesday, September 3, 2025
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Annual Title 1 Night: Building Blueprints for Success Night

Monday, September 22, 2025
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Panther Academic Check-In and Report Card Pickup

Monday, October 27, 2025
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Family Math Mania

Tuesday, November 18, 2025
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Panther Academic Check-In and Report Card Pick Up

Monday, January 12, 2026
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Family Dinner

Wednesday, February 11, 2026
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Panther Academic Check-In and Report Card Pick Up

Monday, March 23, 2026
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Panther Academic Check-In and Report Card Pick Up

Monday, April 27, 2026
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Rising Panther Night

Wednesday, May 6, 2026
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Vinson-Bynum Elementary

Kindergarten Signing Night

Thursday, August 12, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Annual Title 1 Night/Curriculum Night

Thursday, September 18, 2025
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Read to Achieve Night

Thursday, September 18, 2025
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

STEM Night

Thursday, December 9, 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

One School, One Book

Tuesday, February 24, 2026
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

2nd to 3rd Grade Transition

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Wells Elementary

Title 1 Information/Curriculum Night

Thursday, September 25, 2025
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

STEM Night

Thursday, December 11, 2025
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Parent/Teacher Conferences Night

Wednesday, January 21, 2026
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

One School, One Book Night

Thursday, February 19, 2026
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Moving Up! Transition Night

Thursday, May 7, 2026
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Policy Code: 1320/3560 Title I Parent And Family Engagement

The board of education recognizes the value of family engagement in a child’s academic success and believes that the education of children is an ongoing cooperative partnership between the home and the school. Parents and other family members are their children’s first teachers; therefore, the continued involvement of parents and family members in the educational process is most important in fostering and improving educational achievement. School system officials shall strive to support parents and provide parents and family members with meaningful opportunities to become involved in the programs offered by the Title I schools. The board encourages parents and family members to participate in the design and implementation of the programs and activities in order to increase the effectiveness of the school system’s Title I program in helping students meet state and local achievement standards.
A. DEFINITION OF PARENT AND FAMILY ENGAGEMENT
For the purposes of this policy, the term “parent and family engagement” means the participation of parents, guardians, and other family
members in regular, two-way, and meaningful communication involving student learning and other school activities, including ensuring
the following:
1. that parents and family members play an integral role in assisting their child’s learning;
2. that parents and family members are encouraged to be actively involved in their child’s education at school;
3. that parents are full partners in their child’s education and parents and family members are included, as appropriate, in decision
making and on advisory committees to assist in the education of their child; and
4. that the school system utilizes activities to support parent and family engagement in the Title I programs.
B. PURPOSE AND OPERATION OF TITLE I PROGRAM
The Title I program is a federally supported program that offers assistance to educationally and economically disadvantaged children to help ensure they receive an equitable, high-quality, well-rounded education and meet the school system’s challenging academic standards. The Title I program provides instructional activities and supportive services to eligible students over and above those provided by the regular school program.
Qualified Title I schools will operate as school-wide programs or targeted assistance programs based upon federal eligibility criteria.
School-wide programs will provide comprehensive support to offer improved opportunities for all students in the school to meet the school system’s academic standards. Targeted assistance programs will provide services to eligible students most in need of assistance in the school, as determined by objective criteria established by the superintendent or designee. Eligibility criteria may include, for example, standardized test scores, teacher judgment, and results of preschool screening and home-school surveys.
Both school-wide and targeted assistance programs shall be based on effective means of improving student achievement and shall include evidence-based strategies to support parent and family engagement.
C. ANNUAL MEETING AND PROGRAM EVALUATION
Each year, school officials must invite parents of students participating in Title I programs to a meeting to explain parental rights, discuss the programs and activities to be provided with Title I funds, and solicit input on the Title I program and this policy. In addition, school officials must provide parents and family members a meaningful opportunity annually to evaluate the content and effectiveness of the Title I programs and the parent and family engagement policies and plans. Information collected from these proceedings will be used to revise Title I programs and parent and family engagement plans.
D. PARENT AND FAMILY ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS
The board believes that the involvement of Title I parents and family members in the design and implementation of the Title I program will increase the effectiveness of the program and contribute significantly to the success of the children. The Title I staff and all school system personnel shall strive to conduct outreach to parents and family members and involve them in activities throughout the school year. The superintendent shall ensure that this system-level parent and family engagement policy and plan is developed with, agreed upon with, and annually distributed to parents and family members of participating students. In addition to the system-level parent and family
engagement plan, each school participating in the Title I program shall jointly develop and annually distribute to parents and family members a school-level written parent and family engagement plan that describes the means for carrying out school-level policy, sharing responsibility for student academic achievement, building the capacity of school staff and parents for involvement, and increasing accessibility for participation of all parents and family members of children participating in Title I programs, including parents and family members who have limited English proficiency, who have disabilities, or who are migratory. School-level plans must involve parents in the planning and improvement of Title I activities and must provide for the distribution to parents of information on expected student achievement levels and the school’s academic performance. School officials shall invite appropriate school personnel from private schools to consult on the design and development of its programs in order to provide equitable services to students enrolled in private schools. The superintendent or designee shall establish any additional procedures necessary to achieve timely and meaningful consultation with private school officials in accordance with federal
law. In addition, school system officials and Title I school personnel shall do the following:
1. involve parents and family members in the joint development of the Title I program and school support and improvement plan and the process of school review and improvement by including parents on the school advisory committee and any committees that review the Title I program;
2. provide coordination, technical assistance, and other support from various central office departments necessary to assist and build the capacity of all participating schools in planning and implementing effective parent and family engagement activities that are designed to improve student academic achievement and school performance;
3. coordinate and integrate parent and family engagement strategies in the Title I program to the extent feasible and appropriate with parental engagement strategies established in other federal, state, and local laws and programs;
4. with the meaningful involvement of parents, conduct an annual evaluation of the content and effectiveness of the school system parent and family engagement policies and program in improving the academic quality of the school and assisting students to meet the school system’s academic standards
5. strive to eliminate barriers to parental participation by assisting parents who have disabilities and parents who are economically disadvantaged, have limited English proficiency, are migratory, or have other backgrounds or characteristics that may affect participation;

6. provide outreach and assistance to parents and family members of children who are participating in Title I programs in understanding the state’s testing standards, the assessments used, Title I requirements, and all national, state, and local standards and expectations through such efforts as community-based meetings, posting information on school websites, sending information home, newsletters, workshops, and newspaper articles;
7. design a parent–student–school staff compact that sets out respective responsibilities in striving to raise student achievement and explains how an affective home/school partnership will be developed and maintained;
8. with the assistance of parents, ensure that teachers, specialized instructional support personnel, principals, and other staff are educated in the value of parents as partners in the educational process and understand how to work with, communicate with, and reach out to parents as equal partners in education;
9. distribute to parents information on expected student proficiency levels for their child and the school’s academic performance, and provide materials and training to help parents monitor their child’s progress and work with educators to improve achievement through such methods as literacy training or using technology, which may include education about the harms of copyright piracy;
10. coordinate and integrate, to the extent feasible and appropriate, parental involvement programs and activities with federal, state, and local programs, including public preschool programs, and conduct other activities in the community that encourage and support parents to more fully participate in the education of their child;
11. strengthen the partnership with agencies, businesses, and programs that operate in the community, especially those with expertise in effectively engaging parents and family members in education;
12. ensure that parents are involved in the school’s Title I activities; and
13. provide such other reasonable support for Title I parental involvement activities as requested by parents.
E. NOTICE REQUIREMENTS
School system officials and Title I school personnel shall provide effective notice of the following information as required by law. The notice must be in an understandable and uniform format and, to the extent practicable, in a language the parents can understand.
1. Program for English Learners
Each year the principal or designee shall provide notice of the following to parents of English learners identified for participation in a
Title I, Part A or Title III funded language-instruction educational program:
A. the reasons for the child’s identification;
B. the child’s level of English proficiency and how such level was assessed;
C. methods of instruction;
D. how the program will help the child;
E. the exit requirements for the program;
F. if the child has a disability, how the language instruction educational program meets the objectives of the child’s individualized educational program (IEP);
G. any other information necessary to effectively inform the parent of the program and the parental rights regarding enrollment, removal, and selection of a program for English learners; and
H. notice of regular meetings for the purpose of formulating and responding to recommendations from parents.
2. System Report Card
Each year, school system officials shall disseminate to all parents, schools, and the public a school system report card containing information about the school system and each school, including, but not limited to:
A. the following information both in the aggregate and disaggregated by category: student achievement, graduation rates, performance on other school quality and/or student success indicators, the progress of students toward meeting long-term goals established by the state, student performance on measures of school climate and safety, and, as available, the rate of enrollment in post-secondary education;
B. the performance of the school system on academic assessments as compared to the state as a whole and the performance of each school on academic assessments as compared to the state and school system as a whole;
C. the percentage and number of students who are:
i. assessed,
ii. assessed using alternate assessments,
iii. involved in preschool and accelerated coursework programs, and
iiii. English learners achieving proficiency;
D. the per pupil expenditures of federal, state, and local funds; and
E. teacher qualifications.
3. Teacher Qualifications
A. At the beginning of each year, school system officials shall notify parents of students who are participating in Title I programs of the right to request certain information on the professional qualifications of the student’s classroom teachers and paraprofessionals providing services to the child (see policy 7820, Personnel Files).
B. The principal or designee of a Title I school shall provide timely notice informing parents that their student has been assigned to or has been taught for at least four consecutive weeks by a teacher who does not meet applicable state certification or licensure requirements at the grade level or subject area in which the teacher has been assigned.

Locations of Family Engagement Events

Wilson County Schools
Title I Schools

Barnes Elementary 1913 Martin Luther King Parkway, Wilson (252) 399-7875
Beddingfield High School 4510 Old Stantonsburg Rd., Wilson (252) 399-7880
Darden Middle School 1665 Lipscomb Road, Wilson (252) 206-4973
Frederick Douglass Elementary 5544 Lake Wilson Road, Elm City (252) 236-4574
Forest Hills Middle School 1210 Forest Hills Rd NW, Wilson (252) 399-7913
Gardners Elementary 5404 NC 42 Highway E, Wilson (252) 399-7920
Jones Elementary 4028 Highway 42 W, Wilson (252) 265-4020
Lee Woodard Elementary 103 Church Street, Black Creek (252) 399-7940
Lucama Elementary 6260 Blalock Road, Lucama (252) 239-1257
Hearne Elementary 300 W. Gold Street, Wilson (252) 399-7925
Speight Middle School 5514 Old Stantonsburg Rd, Stantonsburg (252) 238-3983
Stantonsburg Elementary 409 S. Main Street, Stantonsburg (252) 238-3639
Vick Elementary 504 N. Carroll Street, Wilson (252) 399-7886
Vinson-Bynum Elementary 1601 Tarboro Street NW, Wilson (252) 399-7981
Wells Elementary 1400 Grove Street, Wilson (252) 399-7986
WCS Family Engagement Office 117 N. E. Tarboro Street, Wilson (252) 399-7800