School Times and School Calendar

Newton-Conover City Schools has a proud tradition of providing quality educational services tailored to the specific learning and emotional needs of our diverse student population. 

At the January 27, 2022 Newton-Conover City Schools Board of Education Meeting, the school calendar for the 2022-23 school year (22-23 School Calendar) was approved.

Calendar features for 2022-2023 include:

  • 165 days of instruction (and/or greater than 1025 hours of instruction)

  • By North Carolina law, the student start date could be no earlier than August 29, 2022

  • Up to 5 remote learning days may be used in the event of inclement weather

With these considerations, our board adopted the above linked calendar. Our school day start and end times will not change for the 2022-2023 school year allowing us to bank hours of instruction for inclement weather and other school closings as we did in 2021-2022. N-CCS works to meet the requirements of the 1,025 hours as well as making our school calendar conducive to high school first semester exams occurring before Christmas Break. Once again, the ending of the school year will occur by the end of May 2023 (5/26/23).

Per the State Board of Education and the N-CCS Board of Education, the superintendent does have the discretion to utilize up to 5 remote learning days as needed for weather-related closings. 

See the below daily bell schedules for the Newton-Conover City Schools for the 2022-2023 school year:

Elementary Schools (North Newton ES, Shuford ES, South Newton ES): 8:10 am - 3:20 pm

Middle School (Newton-Conover MS): 7:40 am - 2:50 pm

High Schools (Newton-Conover HS & Discovery HS): 7:40 am - 2:50 pm

Conover School: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm 

Kid Connection (North Newton ES, Shuford ES, South Newton ES students are bused to North Newton for after school care, Conover School): Open for Before School Care at 6:00 am. After School Care operates until 6:00 pm. 

Early Release Day Dismissal Times

Currently there will be 2 Early Release Days during the 2022-2023 school year (December 22, 2022 & May 26, 2023).

The Early Release times will be as follows: 

Elementary Schools (North Newton ES, Shuford ES, South Newton ES): 11:30 am

Middle School (Newton-Conover MS): 11:00 am

High Schools (Newton-Conover HS & Discovery HS): 11:00 am

Conover School: 11:30 am

Kid Connection (North Newton ES, Shuford ES, South Newton ES students are bused to North Newton for after school care, Conover School): Open for After School Care at 11:30 am.