School Profile

• Established in 2001, New Dimensions today enrolls approximately 575 K-8 students

• New Dimensions relocated to the former Shadowline manufacturing facility on 29 beautiful acres bordering the Catawba River

• We offer small class sizes and adhere to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.

• Art, Music, Physical Education, Spanish, and STEM further enrich our curriculum and develop a broad knowledge base.

• New Dimensions empowers students to make positive choices about themselves, each other, and our environment, producing insightful, organized, relentless, respectful, and responsible students.

• Quality communication between teachers and families boosts each student’s success. We use a variety of ways to communicate with our parents, including Bright Arrow messaging, ClassDojo, parent conferences, and social media.

• Our uniform policy creates a positive environment where the focus is on learning.

• We offer a variety of middle school electives, such as... Creative Writing, DARE, French, Health Occupations, Homesteading, Robotics, Theater, Yoga, and NCVPS online classes.

• Athletics include archery, baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, flag football, golf,  indoor/outdoor soccer, and volleyball.

The North Carolina General Assembly requires all NC schools to write improvement goals and identify strategies for reaching these goals. These goals and strategies make up the School Improvement Plan (SIP).

School improvement planning (SIP) provides a mechanism for identifying needs and establishing a common approach to meeting those needs at the school level. Effective school improvement planning contributes to overall school performance by:

• Establishing an understanding of the “big picture” of a school’s current state, including student achievement, school environment, teacher community, parent community, and administrative issues;

• Reaching consensus across the school community on which needs represent the highest priorities for action based upon the potential to improve overall student and school performance; and

• Identifying implementation goals and strategies, including specific targets, indicators, and milestones required to address the school priorities.

The New Dimensions Charter School’s SIP Committee consists of: 

• The director, principals, department heads, parent representatives, support staff representatives, and teachers.

The School Improvement Plan is reviewed approximately every 3 years.

2021-2024 Strategic Plan – NDS