Coming Soon!
Monday, August 18th - Orientation!
Tuesday, August 19th - First Day of School for 1st thru 8th Grade & Half of Kindergarten
Wednesday, August 20th - First Day for the other Half of Kindergarten
Thursday, August 21st - Board Meeting
Friday, August 22nd - United for Youth Block Party - Pack Square
Thursday, August 28th - Community Builders New Family Social
Evergreen Family Orientation
Orientation is coming up on Monday, August 18th!
Kindergarten - 4th Grade - 8:30-11:30am
5th- 8th Grade - 1:00pm-4:00pm
Adults: Please take your student/s and potluck offerings to their respective classrooms and meet in the gym. From the gym we will break out into small groups, after the breakout session, guardians will report to classrooms to meet with teachers and get more classroom specific information. Orientation Day attendance is mandatory each year.
Potluck Sign-Ups
Click on your grade level below to sign up for the potluck!
With Construction on Haw Creek, please allow extra time for travel! Please also allow yourself plenty of time to walk from the lower lot, drop off all the things, and catch up with your friends on your way to the gym for your Orientation Start Time of 8:30am or 1:00pm!
Parking is available in the school lot and the lower gravel lot. If both of these lots are full, there will be additional parking available at Asheville Gospel Chapel on old Haw Creek Rd. A shuttle will be operating for the AGC lot from 8am for the morning and 12:30 pm for the afternoon session. Do not park in the pool lot!
Bring: Your potluck item/s, camp chairs or picnic blankets, items for hanging outdoors: sunscreen, bugspray, etc.
New & Returning Parents : Please review the Family Orientation Slideshow before attending. Turn on your bluetooth speakers and listen to the narrated version (below) while you’re working in the kitchen, during your commute, or whilst giving the slideshow your undivided attention.
The complete Evergreen Community Handbook is available on the Orientation Page and the Forms and Resources Page.
Downtown Block Party!
The United for Youth Block Party is a FREE event in Pack Square Park to celebrate the new school year.
Join Evergreen at our booth in the field near the stage! Come help us represent our school community by showing up in your Evergreen Shirts, ready to have a good time!
They’re turning up the energy this year with:
🎤 Live youth performances
🍔 Mouthwatering FREE food trucks
🎧 A DJ keeping the beat all day long
💡 Interactive STEAM and Resiliency Zones
🎨 Kids' activities and creative fun
📚 50+ community info booths
🎁 Surprises around every corner
We need volunteers to help greet party goers, hand out stickers, and assist with a couple fun STEAM activities.
SIGN UP HERE to Volunteer
Check out the video - this is definitely the most fun you’ll have volunteering this year!
You can learn more about the United for Youth, their vision, mission, and program goals on their website!
Attendance in August and september
Get the school year started on the right foot! Establish a routine that shows your students the importance of being on time and the importance of consistent attendance. Students should arrive to school between 8:00-8:20am so they have time to store their belongings and greet their friends before the announcements and the official start of the school day.
In addition to building good habits of scholars, our state and federal funding are directly linked to our attendance during the start of the school year, so we really need a paper trail that reflects the maximum attendance possible! Especially this year with deep cuts to school budgets, we need every dollar to best serve our students and their families. Please help out by refraining from unnecessary absences.
Students are marked tardy if they are not in the building by 8:29am.
Breakfast, Lunch, and Snacks
Place Your Lunch Order through our Nutrition Menus & More Page in the Evergreen Families Menu on the websites nav bar.
Access to affordable, nutritious foods are key to student success! Being able to offer Free and Reduced Meals through the National School Lunch Program, and securing access to healthy food for all of our students is an important value of our school.
Breakfast will be available each morning at the entrance to the school. Breakfast is free for students who qualify for free/reduced lunch, or $2.75/student for those who do not qualify.
Lunches are provided through a third party caterer called, Each One Teach One Through Food. Lunches are free for those who qualify for free /reduced lunch, or $5.75/ea.
Financial Assistance
If you need financial assistance for the 25-26 school year (EVEN if only for bigger End of Year Trips), please complete this form: FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE REQUEST**. If there are any extenuating circumstances, please detail them in the notes section (ie. your income was higher for 2024 on your tax return but your situation has changed).
**If you have completed the forms for Free & Reduced Lunch, no other documentation is required.
Paper forms are available in the main office.
Important information - PLEASE READ:
Please apply now even if you ONLY need financial assistance for your child's end of year trip
Deadlines:
October 31, 2025 (to be retro to August)
December 31, 2025 (for assistance starting from request date)
All year for families that experience a change in their financial situation at any time during the school year
Evergreen cannot at this time offer 100% assistance but we do offer several different levels between 80% assistance and 34% assistance
My School Bucks
All new Evergreen families must be registered for a My School Bucks account. Please download the app and create an account, or register through your pc.
Once you have registered (or for returning families: remembered your password): All 2025-2026 school year fees have been uploaded and are ready for payment!
If you need assistance with your MSB account please contact ND Gravy.
Sign up to Volunteer
Evergreen is grounded in the philosophy that all community members will work together to ensure the success of each child at Evergreen. We are crew. We depend on volunteers.
Families are encouraged to find a variety of ways to contribute their time and talents to fulfill their monthly volunteer commitment. Please fill out our Volunteer Survey if you have not already! Each family member should complete their own survey. Please feel free to share with local grandparents, or other chosen family members who want to be more involved.
Believe it or not: This accounting can actually help us as we are writing grants because we can show a community that is invested in our collective work!
Please Log Hours! Hours can be logged per occurrence or cumulatively (ie. I spend 1 hour each week washing and folding classroom rags, there are approx 36 weeks in the school year so I can log 36 hours once, or I can log 1 hours each week).
drop-off and Pick up
This year, with the sidewalk construction on New Haw Creek Rd, getting to school on time is going to mean shifting habits! Look for alternate routes. Me: I’m using Cisco Rd. Get on Google Maps and check out alternate routes now.
Tips for Smooth Drop-off
-We strongly recommend dropping your student off between 7:55-8:10am. There is a fee based BeforeCare program available from 7:30-7:55am. After 7:55am there is no charge. Students move from the gym into the main building at 8:10am.
-Please listen to the traffic team’s direction and use crosswalk any time cones are up.
-Help your child transition by encouraging them to gather their things on the way up the drive, start saying your goodbyes and well wishes as you’re pulling around!
-Children must exit the car on the right hand side. If this is not possible, children must be able to get out of the car unassisted, and they must use the center sidewalk to go to a crosswalk.
-Drivers, please stay in the car and let traffic team assist. If your child has lots of gear, needs help, please park - do not hold up the car line
-If you need to park, do not use the spaces adjacent to the gym. Pull past car line and use the gravel spaces or the spaces near Picnic Island.
-Pull up as far as you can, our goal is to keep traffic from backing up onto Bell Rd.
TL;DR: Don’t hold up carline with your shenanigans.
Tips for Smooth Pick Up
-Have your Purple Placard ready at pick-up (given at Orientation)
-Display your placard/s on your dashboard so that staff can easily enter the numbers into their car-line app. Leave the placard/s up until all students you are picking up have been loaded, then remove it to let us know that you are ready to roll!
-Add all the people to your approved pick-up list, make sure they have placards. Additional placards can be requested at the front desk.
-If people picking up students (including parents) do not have a placard, make sure they know to BRING ID. Whomever is at the front desk will be checking ids against the pick-up list.
(If your chosen name differs from the one listed on the driver’s license- just make sure that we have both listed.)
-Early Dismissal ends at 2:30pm (1:00pm on Mondays) Please bear this in mind when scheduling afternoon appointments/making plans.
TL;DR: Always have your placard, if you don’t have your placard have your ID.
This year, more than ever, We really Need every penny.
Here are some simple things we can do as a collective that can make a big difference. The more participation we get in these programs, the greater the rewards for our school!
Please spend the time to link your grocery rewards cards to Evergreen. Get your neighbors to do the same. Register your in-laws, your parents, your friends. This small investment of time can make a big difference each time you go to the store to restock!
Register your Harris Teeter Card here. You must re-register each and every year.
Register your Ingles Card here. You must re-register each and every year.
Our school id number is 10713.
Download the Box Tops for Education App and scan your receipts.
Cans for Climbing
Bring your aluminum cans to the trailer that sits by the buses for recycling. Cans for Climbing supports our Adventure Program and brings in over a thousand dollars each year!
