Petition to Enroll

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) requires that you wait three months before you can enroll in a Central Piedmont College and Career Readiness program. To start your petition to enroll in one of our programs, you and your parent or legal guardian must contact a student success navigator and provide the appropriate documents:

• CMS Minor Release Instructions (PDF)
• CMS Minor Release Form (PDF)
• Non-CMS Minor Release Instructions (PDF)
• Non-CMS Minor Release Form (PDF)
• Foreign School Withdrawal Date Form (PDF)

Take the Pearson Vue GED® or HiSET® Tests as a Minor

You may choose not to enroll in College and Career Readiness classes or programs. Instead, you could take the Pearson Vue, GED® or HiSET® tests to obtain your High School Equivalency diploma. However, the Pearson Vue, GED®, and HiSET® testing services place a temporary block preventing minors from registering online to take these tests. To lift that block, email our student success navigators to request to have the block removed.

ESL or Immigrant Students

If you are interested in the College and Career Readiness English as a Second Language classes and programs and you are not in the country under an F-1 visa, contact a student success navigator. Prospective students with F-1 visas cannot enroll in College and Career Readiness classes or programs.

If You Have a High School Diploma from a Foreign Country

• If you have graduated from high school in a foreign country, try to get your official high school transcripts.
• You must get your foreign transcript translated and evaluated if you want to finish high school with us.
• Take your translated and evaluated transcripts to a Central Piedmont records office.