Parents

Parent Involvement

Parental support through volunteer service helps to ensure that Langston will continue to be an excellent learning community for all students. Langston parents commit to an average of 9 hours per quarter in service to the school. Parent service to the school illustrates for students your commitment to their success. Your time and talents are needed and appreciated!

Hurricane Helene Make Up Days

Our School Board made the decision during the School Board meeting on Tuesday, March 11, 2025 to use self-paced, asynchronous (no-live instruction) eLearning for the 3 required Make Up Days due to Hurricane Helene.

Langston has always focused on following Greenville County Schools scheduling in order to support our families that have students in both school systems. Langston will be modeling these make up days after Greenville County Schools plan for self-paced E-Learning Days Due to Hurricane Helene:

Hurricane Helene was an unusual event resulting in widespread power outages for an extended period of time, which made it impossible for Greenville County Schools, and most districts in our area, to conduct eLearning during the eight days schools were closed.

In accordance with state law, the State Department of Education is requiring districts to make up three of the days missed during Hurricane Helene, which will then allow our local school board to excuse three days and the State Board of Education to excuse three days.

The district administration is proposing a plan to meet these requirements to the GCS Board of Trustees. Upon approval, Greenville County Schools will make up three days missed from Hurricane Helene using self-paced, asynchronous (no live instruction) eLearning on the following days: Friday, March 14; Friday, April 18; and Saturday, May 10. Students and teachers will not need to be online for these makeup days; teachers will provide students with assignments that can be completed within five school days upon return to school.

Testing Information

All students at Langston Charter Middle School are required to participate in mandatory state testing. You can learn more about testing by visiting the SC Department of Education’s Parent Resource page.

Parent/Student PowerSchool Portal

A parent portal account provides parents, guardians, or contacts with a central place to sign in to do the following:

View their student’s information including demographics, attendance, classes, grades, lunch balances, and test scores.
Receive alerts and notifications regarding their students.
View their student’s school and contact information.

Uniforms

The purpose of the school uniform is to focus students’ attention on academics by reducing distractions. Students distinguish themselves by their actions and accomplishments, not their wardrobe. Parents agree to purchase the required uniform and ensure that their students are dressed according to the uniform dress code daily.

Student Technology

The fee provides a daily academic planner, select classroom supplies, and a subscription to Microsoft Office 365.

This subscription includes a school email address, cloud storage on Microsoft’s OneDrive, and a license to download the Microsoft Office suite on up to 5 personal devices. Students will use these resources to collaborate, create, store, and submit work.

Instructions for downloading the Office suite on your home devices.

Parent Volunteer Opportunities

Take Out Lunch Volunteer Signup

We need your help serving lunch!!! Sign up through the Langston Market Place. From our Langston website:

Click on ‘Market Place’
Click on ‘Volunteer’
On the right you will see the volunteer calendar. Click on the date you would like to volunteer and enter your name.
You will receive email reminders.
Log back in to confirm what dates you signed up for.

Email June Deas at jdeas@langstoncharter.org with any questions.

Please note: We couldn’t run our Take Out Lunch program without parent volunteers! Please sign up to help! This is a great way to earn your Parent Volunteers Hours!

SC Parent Right to Know Resources

District websites are community resources that have statewide and national outreach. These websites include some content that is required by state and federal regulation. The following information contains state and federal requirements of a district website content and other resources to consider for public awareness.

Attendance

Submit an absence note for your student:

THIS LINK IS NOT FOR EARLY DISMISSALS; early dismissals can be signed out at the front office prior to 2:45 Mon- Thurs, and 1:00 on Fridays.

Original Medical Notes must be brought to the front desk to be coded “Excused-Medical”.

Secure Volunteer

Student safety is our foremost concern. Therefore, criminal background checks are performed before parents or other individuals are asked to help coach, chaperone, or supervise student events.

Prospective volunteers – please click below to request your background check.

Please contact the school office if you have questions.

School Calendar

We follow Greenville County Schools calendar with a few exceptions. Click here to view our calendar by month. Watch WYFF Channel 4 for Langston’s closing/delayed start information.

Carpools

Parents coordinate their own carpools to expedite the process of student drop-off and pick-up each day. Each student will receive a Student Directory which includes student’s subdivision name.

Office Hours